Red Hat & Dell Host Open Source Security Summit

wishus writes "Red Hat and Dell said they would co-host an Open Source Security Summit. 'Join Red Hat, Dell and experts in enterprise security from around the world for a summit on securing infrastructures with open source software.'"

a good thing...

[netphilter]

I think this is a very good thing, considering that to most people the idea that something designed in such an open manner is secure seems preposterous. I may even drag my Controller along in an effort to help to open her eyes to the fact that we don't have to pay big money for good security.

User Friendly Security

[snatchitup]

RedHat has made great strides in the user-friendly install... At least making easy for Windows users to "try out its features".

The problem is, so much of the strong reasons for switching to Linux (aka security) are hard to realize in a user friendly sort of way.

For instance, getting OpenSSH up and running to integrate a Windows box to be able to ftp from/to the secure Linux install takes alot of work, and fishing around. It's an immediate turn-off.

Then there's wireless networking. Oh by the way, you have to become a kernel compile afficianado to get these wireless drivers workers.

If we're talking RedHat/ here and security in the same breath, then why not focus on a user friendly install for security. Including a side howto on how to possibly go get Putty up and running. And how you're going to need to generate your keys with ssh-keygen type 2 rsa and then load them into puttygen which will convert them. And oh by the way, the converted private key will also work under SecureNetTerm. Don't forget something like this for your private keys in you $home/.ssh dir:

chmod 600 id_rsa
cp id_rsa authorized_keys2

It wasn't that easy, but it should be, and it could be.