FreeBSD6 Unleashed

Security Models

You can adopt one of several models of security for your system, based on your system’s setup and use patterns and your philosophy toward the security needs the system presents. The security model you choose will dictate how careful you must be about certain administrative duties, such as password policies, open services, encrypted traffic, and so on. Here’s a short list of some security models, each defined by a general statement that sums up the administrator’s assessment of security risks:

• I trust everybody on the Internet. Most certainly an inadvisable model under any circumstances, this is nonetheless the philosophy that guides the lack of security safeguards surrounding many amateur servers, and the administrators of those ...