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CIS Releases FreeBSD Security Benchmark

Posted by michael on from the keeping-honest-people-honest dept.

JohnnyDime writes "The Center for Internet Security (CIS) has released a security benchmark and auditing tool for FreeBSD versions 4.8 and later. This is a free download available from cisecurity.org. CIS is a non-profit, consensus driven organization that uses experts from the public, private, and academic sectors to develop security guidance for operating systems and applications."

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  1. BSD is NOT dying. HPUX is. by alphaque · · Score: 4, Interesting

    hmm, oddly the HTML title and title bar both say "Benchmarks for HPUX". :)

    see the link above at http://www.cisecurity.org/bench_freebsd.html

  2. Re:Heh by SillyNickName4me · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That is nice... lets see when there is a result (have seen enough results from the people involved in Fragonfly, so that was not intended as a cynical statement, just as a huint that only what exists today can be used today)

    Anyway, unlike what some people believe, this kind of competition between different BSD distributions is a good thing, it allows people to go their own way with their ideas, and after a while all BSDs get a better solution (if the idea turned out to be better that is)