System Security

• Physical Security
• Passwords Presentation from Workshop Materials for the CLICS Project. John the Ripper Syntax, xkcd, xkcd, How well is your password hidden in the space of passwords
• Permissions
• Malware
• Rootkits and Viruses
• Tools (system monitoring, intrusion detection, hardening)
• System Hardening
• Keep your system updated
• Backups: Keep regular backups and test them. See for example,
  • Windows: Windows Backup
  • OSX: Timemachine
  • Linux: rsync, svn, unison, git, rsync and a linux timemachine (there are other timemachine clones), rsnapshot