From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 10 23:02:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: advocacy@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E766216A4A7 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:02:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8548B43DD7 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:00:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1739046CC2 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:00:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:00:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: advocacy@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20061110225956.O85749@fledge.watson.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Subject: FYI: 6.2 Audit Article on Security Focus X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:02:14 -0000 http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/422 FreeBSD Security Event Auditing Federico Biancuzzi, 2006-11-10 The upcoming release of FreeBSD 6.2 includes the new Security Event Auditing system, that "permits the selective and fine-grained logging of security-relevant system events for the purposes of post-mortem analysis, intrusion detection, and run-time monitoring analysis." Federico Biancuzzi interviewed Robert Watson, founder of the TrustedBSD project, and discussed the advantages and potentialities it brings.