“This year’s BSDCon is being held at the Monterey Hyatt, in
Monterey Ca. The first tutorial was a two-day tutorial covering
BSD System Security. For the most part the classes are intensive
and there was a lot of ground to cover. And attendees should
have been fairly comfortable with at least one flavor of UNIX.
However there was considerable mention of routers and their
important role in overall network security….”
“The tutorial was taught by Alan Clegg, presently working for
BSDi. He seemed quite knowledgeable in security procedures. Alan
has been a system admin since 1982, so his experience with
networking was very impressive. As a speaker, Alan was pretty good,
and sometimes even funny. His presentation was very well thought
out and organized. At the beginning of the tutorial, we were given
a printed version of his presentation, which was great because I am
not a good note taker.”
“The topics covered where pretty comprehensive. Alan started
with an outline of what is computer crime and then ended up with a
quick guide to the latest script kiddie software. This, believe it
or not, included running Nessus (a new script kiddie GUI program )
on our local network set up inside the hotel, which discovered a
few hosts that where ripe for an attack.”