Author : Premchand Ambhore, B B Meshramr and Archana Wankhade

The dominant operating system on the Internet, Linux is quite prevalent, considering that the overwhelming majority of servers running web services, email services, and name services all depend on other open-source code that works with Linux. And this is where the trouble begins. So we need to secure Linux operating system. The Linux should be secured from three perspectives. Workstation Security, Network security, Server security since most of the network application such as DHCP, Telnet and Web servers are running on Linux it is necessary to secure these applications. All the threat, attacks are mostly are network based so the Linux network service must be so powerful to prevent these kind of attacks.

Keywords: DHCP, Security, Boot, BIOS

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.5, No.2 (April-2015)