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FreeBSD Security Fundamentals Presentation at Toor

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 2, 2001 @05:27PM from the locking-out-bad-guys dept.

Justin Lundy writes: "Last weekend Sean Lewis from Subterrain Security Group (SSG) presented a lecture on FreeBSD Security Fundamentals at Toorcon 2001 in San Diego, CA. It covers securelevels, suexec, chroot and jail, nosuid, rc.conf settings and special sysctl values. The presentation is available at http://www.subterrain.net/presentations/."

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Re:the nice thing about the bsd section... by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-03 04:29 · Score: 2, Interesting

FYI Mike Bouma already wrote a brilliant report showing how BSD is between 15 and 75% faster than any other OS available for the Intel platform. On Alpha it just smokes linux and OpenVMS away.