International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 164 - Number 3 |
Year of Publication: 2017 |
Authors: Mohammed A. Afifi, Khawar Nehal |
10.5120/ijca2017913597 |
Mohammed A. Afifi, Khawar Nehal . Linux Platforms as a Secure Desktop Solution. International Journal of Computer Applications. 164, 3 ( Apr 2017), 9-11. DOI=10.5120/ijca2017913597
A lot of discussion goes into Enterprise Security, Network Security, and Computer Security. Initially, the most commonly used software are a combination of Operating systems, Desktop, and several standard applications like email clients, web browsers, word processing for document creating and editing. Now, the fact is that the listed common software combinations are the target of the most social engineered attacks, so selecting a secure combination for desktops shall go way far from these attacks into raising the security levels in many organizations. In this paper, we shall look at some of the configurations available in Linux platform that allows it to avoid and mitigate many of these common attacks which are considered to be the main cause of many security breaches.