CERN Computing Seminar

OpenBSD: the proactive Security operating system

by Riccardo Veraldi (CNAF)

Europe/Zurich
Vidyo: Computing Seminars (CERN)

Vidyo: Computing Seminars

CERN

Description

COMPUTER SECURITY SERIES - @CNAF

I will be talking about the OpenBSD operating system. OpenBSD is a Unix-like operating system and aims to be the number one in the industry for security. INFN CSIRT has based it's core services such as Incident management and incident response, mail services over encrypted storage. More in general OpenBSD is used at INFN for implementing VPN solutions.

I will cover the description of the OpenBSD security features, OS installation and basic usage in this hands-on tutorial.

About the speaker

Riccardo Veraldi  is the INFN CSIRT Coordinator at CNAF since 2019. Previously:

  • 2016 - 2019: Network and Storage architect at SLAC/LCSL
  • 2000 - 2016: IT Unix sys admin/network manager/CNAF Security Officer
Organized by

Stefan Lüders/CERN and Vincenzo Ciaschini‎/CNAF

Logistics: Miguel Angel Marquina - IT Department
CERN Computing Seminars and Colloquia


NOTE: In order to prevent spurious disturbances, participants joining via Vidyo are kindly invited to keep their camera and microphone muted until the Q&A part after the presentation. When it will be your turn, enable to pose your comments/questions, then mute again