Security Lab

Fedora Security Spin

Wiki Page Purpose
This page follows the Spins_Process. The Development Home can be found at https://pagure.io/security-lab

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.

Owner(s)

• Owner(s): Fabian Affolter

• Quality Assurance: Athmane Madjoudj

• Former Owner(s): Luke Macken, Adam John Miller, Christoph Wickert, Hiemanshu Sharma, Joerg Simon

Detailed Description

The spin is maintained by a community of Security Testers and Developers. It comes with the clean and fast Xfce 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 security features and testing
• A toolset for proper security testing
• A complete repair/rescue system - with tools not contained on the other LiveCDs to rescue your System
• Gather interested people to package new tools for this spin
  • see Wishlist
• Cool marketing instrument and a story to tell
• There are industry partners who are interested to contribute
• and also contained in this presentation SecuritySpin and the OSSTMM

Kickstart File

• https://pagure.io/security-lab/blob/master/f/fedora-livecd-security.ks

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

Testing / QA

• Run basic spin testing
• Test installs from livecd and usb, test livecd-creator
• Persistence of Security Menu after installations
• How do the available applications work?
• Current security lab applications test-cases
• As of Fedora 16, Security Lab release validation test events are available.

Please track your checks on the relevant release in the Security Lab Testing category

Spins Page

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

Spins Page is set up https://labs.fedoraproject.org/security/