Introducing SecurityBSD

We’re all familiar with the FreeBSD operating system. It’s a powerful, UNIX based operating system that is secure, stable with a low memory footprint. Introducing SecurityBSD. SecurityBSD is a bundling of the FreeBSD operating system with open source security tools aimed at computer security profesionals and enthusiasts, and intends to be a serious contender to the more popular security Linux distributions such as Backtrack Linux, Weaknet Linux and SamuraiWTF.

SecurityBSD can be used on your old beige-box or on the latest computer hardware, it really doesn’t matter. One of the advantages of SecurityBSD is that it is lightweight, and can be used on legacy machines, which will be ideal for enterprises with a small IT security budget, especially in the developing world.

In its current incarnation, there is little to no customization to reflect that it is, in fact, a distribution independent of FreeBSD. It retains FreeBSD branding and the modifications are limited to installations of NMAP and Metasploit. This is an extremely early showcase of what I’m yearning towards with regards to the development of this BSD distribution. Future editions will contain the SecurityBSD project branding and will contain a wide range of security tools.

I’m pretty excited about the development of SecurityBSD, as it offers me an opportunity to learn more about the security tools which my career will be based upon and UNIX, and I’ve got high hopes for it.

A virtualbox appliance will be posted online in a few days, and I hope that you, the computer security and FreeBSD community approach this project with the same level of enthusiasm that I have for this project, and turn it in to a viable security auditing tool.

Finally, I’d like to express my deepest gratitude to the hundreds who have contributed code to the FreeBSD project and made it possible for me to make SecurityBSD.

Matthew Hughes

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