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Cyber Security: Fedora Security Spin
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Table of Contents
Fedora Security Spin........................................................................................................................3
Test cases: HTTping....................................................................................................................3
How to configure HTTP SERVER..............................................................................................3
Installing HTTPing package........................................................................................................6
How to test...................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................9

Fedora Security Spin
Fedora Security Spin also called Fedora Security Lab is a collection of security-related tools built
off the Fedora Linux distribution. The distribution is maintained by a community of Security
Testers and Developers. Security professionals use Fedora Security Spin for security auditing,
system rescue and forensics (Petersen, 2013). In addition, it also offers a safe environment to
teach security testing. It is also possible to put the security spin on an usb-drive which allows
security expert to install and update software and save the results permanently
(Fedoraproject.org). The read-write rootfs (root file system) feature makes it possible for security
professionals to install software on a broken or corrupt system while the live CD is running.
Moreover, the fact that it can be ran from a livecd or an usb-stick means the spin is light weight.
The community of security testers and developers allows interested people to come together and
package new tools for the spin. In addition, the there are other industry partners who are
interested to contribute too. This provides a good platform to showcase security features and a
good toolset for proper security testing to security professionals and learners as well.
Test cases: HTTping
Httping is used to measure the latency and throughput of a webserver (Michael et al, 2014).
Latency is the time required to process a request, as perceived by the user. It includes response
time, network transmission time and the time required to process the response by the user's web
browser. On the other hand, throughput is the measure if the number of transactions or data units
processed per unit time. It can also be used to measure network traffic either in bits per second or
packets per second as processed by the network components.
How to configure HTTP SERVER
Check if apache2 is installed
apt list –installed apache2