+Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US), +discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end +of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS +to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing. +
+ +
+OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership +Awards, organized by the SANS institute. +OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security +testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award, +"In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which +they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched +by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in +the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's +ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke +in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms +and denial of service attack mitigation techniques. +
+ +
www@openbsd.org
-$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.365 2003/07/18 14:01:34 jose Exp $ +
$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.366 2003/07/23 20:26:46 jose Exp $