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News: Host Security 6/12/2000 13:39

Open Sources -- Security by Default

InfoSecMag
Posted By: Dave Wreski
6/12/2000

What would happen if you removed most of the extraneous, unnecessary and insecure protocols from your OS, tightened up the default configuration and then hunted bugs ruthlessly? Something very much like OpenBSD, because that’s precisely what project founder Theo De Raadt decided to do. The result has been largely successful in terms of achieving "security by default."


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