Quick review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD

One other book that recently showed up in our mailbox is Secure Architectures With OpenBSD by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario. This book is, primarily, a system administration manual, but, since it's for OpenBSD, it is strongly oriented toward running secure systems. It covers all of the usual topics, though often a bit more superficially than one might like. The range of topics is wide, however, extending into firewalling, Kerberos, S/Key, IPSec, IPv6, intrusion detection, etc. If you're looking for a pure BSD administration manual, you may want to supplement this one with the Unix Administration Handbook or something similar. This book, however, is a good, thorough overview of how the OpenBSD variant of BSD is put together and how to keep it secure.

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