Tools for Securing Your Departmental Systems

The Information Security Office hosts a discussion forum for technical staff to discuss various security issues.

Server Hardening Checklists

The Information Security Office maintains these pages as a resource for campus IT administrators. For recommended practices for securing servers, select your operating system below:

• Mac OS X
• Redhat Linux
• Solaris 10
• Microsoft Windows 2003
• Multifunction Device

You may wish to review the list of changes to the Server Hardening Checklists.

Secure Web Application Coding Guidelines

The secure Web application coding guidelines contain best practices and design guidelines for application developers on campus. The checklists are intended to be a concise reference document for developers.

If you have any comments or suggestions, please contact the Information Security Office at security@utexas.edu.

Security Checklist for Hosted IT Services

The security checklist for hosted IT services contains information to assist purchasing project sponsors in addressing risk management, contract review, and ongoing Vendor management, with the goal of minimizing risk to university data. See the change log for a list of changes to this document.

Selfscan

Selfscan is a federated network vulnerability scanner that you can use to perform security scans against information systems that you manage. 

Protecting the Privacy of Information and Network Integrity