open source security courseware?

[Richard Wilson]

Jeremy,

Have you checked out the free documents available from SANS at
www.sans.org?  I have some of their material and it's been both
excellent and useful.

The single best Linux security resource IMHO, is the book 
Real World Linux Security Intrusion Prevention, Detection, and Recovery
by Bob Toxen, published by Prentice Hall PTR.  There's a 2nd edition of
this book out, but my first edition is so marked up with notes that I'll
never let it go.  It is, of course, copyrighted, but Bob's web site at
www.cavu.com does have some good free stuff and a bunch of links to
other beneficial Linux security web sites.

Hope this helps

Richard Wilson
Senior Consultant
EDS Messaging Services

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On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 15:50 -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Does anyone know of any open source security courseware?
> 
> I know that "security" is a skill that should be taught for all sysadmin 
> tasks, but I am looking for free to commercially use and modify and 
> distribute courseware that focuses on security techniques and security 
> tools for Linux (and *BSD and generic).
> 
> Some google searches didn't find any open source security courseware. (I 
> have found and reviewed a few open source sysadmin coursewares.)
> 
> Some open source security books include:
> 
> Prentice Hall publishes "Open Source Security Tools: Practical 
> Applications for Security" by Tony Howlett which is Copyright  2005 
> Pearson Education, Inc. and distributed under the Open Publication 
> License.  http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/
> 
> "Securing & Optimizing Linux: The Ultimate Solution" (version 2) by 
> Gerhard Mourani and Open Network Architecture, Inc., also uses the Open 
> Publication License. I don't know what the license is for their more 
> recent book.
> 
> "Linux Administrator's Security Guide" by Kurt Seifried is not a really a 
> book anymore and is available as a series of webpages. It is open source 
> but the license may be too restrictive.
> 
> Plus there are the security guides from FreeBSD, Debian and Gentoo that 
> are open source.
> 
> Anyone interested in helping with creating actual courseware covering 
> Linux security?
> 
> Basically the differences between this and a normal book or guide are:
> 
> - broken down into manageable lessons
> - lessons have clearly defined learning objectives or lesson goals
> - lessons provide information like a normal book
> - lessons provide examples
> - lessons provide tasks and practice exercises
> - does not have to cover everything as it can point to other relevant
>    documentation and/or the instructor can provide information
> 
> If you'd like to assist, please let me know. I am working on it in LyX 
> (which I have used for other courseware). I will setup a CVS if needed.
> 
>   Jeremy C. Reed
> 
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