Secure the server, not Perl. There are numerous hardening kits available for different flavors of Unix. For example, if you are using Solaris, you can use JAZZ and Titan.
There is a myth that Perl has sandboxing issues. In fact, this is one of the reasons given for Yahoo's switch from Perl to PHP in the delivery phase of it's pages. This is bull.
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