Security Lab

Fedora Security Spin

Wiki Page Purpose
This page follows the Spins_Process. The Development Home can be found at https://fedorahosted.org/security-spin/

Summary

The Fedora Security Spin is a livecd based on Fedora to provide a safe test-environment for working on security-auditing, forensics and penetration-testing, coupled with all the Fedora-Security features and tools.

Previous releases

• Fedora 13

Owner(s)

• Original Owners: Luke Macken, Adam John Miller

• Current Owners: JoergSimon, Christoph Wickert, Hiemanshu Sharma

Detailed Description

The spin is maintained by a community of Security Testers and Developers. It comes with the clean and fast LXDE Desktop Enviroment and a customized menu to have all the instruments one may need to follow a proper test-path on security testing[1]or to rescue a broken system. With the read-write rootfs, it is possible to install software while the livecd is running. The Fedora liveusb-creator provides an overlay feature to put the security-spin on an usb-stick so that the user can install and update software - and can save his test-results permanently.

Benefit to Fedora

• covered by the above Description
• A stable platform for teaching security along Security Classes in Universities and Organisations like the ISECOM
  • People learn about Fedora through these Classes
• Showcase for all Security-Features
• A Toolset for proper Security-Testing
• a complete Repair/Rescue System - with tools not contained on the other LiveCD's to rescue your System
• gather interested People to package new upstreams for this spin
  • see Wishlist
• Cool Marketing Instrument!
• There are Industry Partners who are interested to contribute
• and also contained in this presentation SecuritySpin and the OSSTMM

Kickstart File

• http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=blob_plain;f=fedora-livecd-security.ks;hb=F-13

ISO Name / FS Label

• ISO name: Fedora-$release-$arch-LiveSecurity
• FS-Label: Fedora-$release-$arch-Security

Dependencies

• security-menus
  • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548824#c17 DONE

Scope / Testing

• Run basic spin testing
• Test installs from livecd and usb, test livecdcreator
  • persistence of Security Menu after installs
• how the available Applications work
  • what else is needed to have it as a good rescue system as well?
• work on customize Artwork - ongoing

Spins Page

See https://fedorahosted.org/security-spin/wiki/spinspage

Spins Page is set up http://spins.fedoraproject.org/security/