LinuxCon Europe + CloudOpen Europe

The modern information security landscape is highly complex, multi-faceted and it evolves rapidly. It is therefore crucial for any information architect to ensure that sufficient care has been taken over the security of any system for which they are responsible. Ben Tullis takes an in-depth look at the subject of defensive information warfare, focussing well beyond the basics of patching and hardening and describing some of the more advanced techniques and tools that anyone can use to increase their levels of overall system visibility and thereby their confidence in its digital integrity. The key tools that are discussed are free, Open Source and run on GNU/Linux platforms, forming a vital element of an organization's information security infrastructure and thereby underpinning rapid, accurate and critical response to emergent security threats.