<p dir="ltr">Windows has become far better out of the box in the past 5 years. But so has several major Linux distros. RedHat 6 installed with a basic apache server with defaults is very, very secure. Between iptables and selinux, remote bad guy, and local bad users would be quite stymied attempting to access areas not allowed.<br>
The firewall in Fedora 19 is using the successor to iptables and is even more robust. The fully enforcing, targeted selinux is very complete at allowing only that which should occur.<br>
It would make a good challenge to have an out of the box windows server vs Linux server crack-a-thon. I suspect it would be very, very close if not a tie. And the failures would be different. <br>
Hmm. A pair of as released systems against a pair of upgraded systems would be a good showcase.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 22, 2014 5:13 PM, "John Heim" <<a href="mailto:john@johnheim.com">john@johnheim.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I am currently talking with someone who claims Windows is more secure than linux "out of the box". Is the following comment by him BS? I can't find anything on google and I've never heard there is anything you have to do after installing debian or ubuntu to make it secure.<br>
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> Most distros (Debian and Ubuntu for example, as I've already pointed out) come with services running<br>
> that don't need to be by default and no default block input policy. obviously this doesn't make one more<br>
> secure than another, but a user needs to know to disable those, or bind them to loopback or even just<br>
> protect them with iptables.<br>
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