In the bustling cyber security operations center of a top-tier banking institution, two analysts, Sergey and Ionis, were intently monitoring the network for any signs of suspicious activity. Suddenly, they noticed a series of strange anomalies that looked like the beginning of a massive cyber attack.
“This looks like a nation state attack,” said Ionis, furrowing their brow. “We need to alert the incident response team immediately.”
This post tries to consolidate information available across multiple websites on the topic of securing a Mastodon server. (Where available, I linked to archive.org’s wayback-machine for long-term access.)
Attended NolaCon (in New Orleans, LA) for the last three days and had a blast. Also contributed by speaking about “How to build your First SOC”, you can find the slides here.
This post documents my testing results for the Linux distro Elementary OS. I performed the same testing on the following distros:
The results are based on the methodology described here:
Elementary collected 13 out of 18 possible points – A great score for a UX focused distro.
This post documents my testing results for the Linux distro Garuda Linux. I performed the same testing on the following distros:
The results are based on the methodology described here:
Garuda collected 10 out of 18 possible points – A good score for a UX focused distro.
This post documents my testing results for the Desktop version of the Linux distro Ubuntu. I performed the same testing on the following distros:
The results are based on the methodology described here:
Ubuntu collected 12 out of 18 possible points – A score that shows its maturity.
This post documents my testing results for the Desktop Linux distro Pop!_OS. I performed the same testing on the following distros:
The results are based on the methodology described here:
Pop!_OS collected 9 out of 18 possible points – An OK balance between user experience and security.
This post documents my testing results for the Desktop Linux distro Linux Mint. I performed the same testing on the following distros:
The results are based on the methodology described here:
Linux Mint collected 13 out of 18 possible points – A very good result that shows the high level of maturity of this nicely polished distribution.
This post documents my testing results for the Desktop Linux distro Manjaro. I performed the same testing on the following distros:
The results are based on the methodology described here:
Manjaro collected 12 out of 18 possible points – A pretty good result for a distro that is focused on user experience.
This post documents my testing results for the Desktop Linux distro EndeavourOS. I performed the same testing on the following distros:
The results are based on the methodology described here:
EndeavourOS collected 9 out of 18 possible points – An OK balance between UX and Security.