Webinar Overview
Operating infrastructure securely involves more than just installing security updates. Systems need to be configured correctly, monitored over time, and maintained with a clear understanding of how the FreeBSD security process works.
Join Klara’s Allan Jude and FreeBSD Security Officer Gordon Tetlow for a technical discussion on securing production FreeBSD systems. The session covers the security mechanisms available in FreeBSD, best practices for applying them, and will cover how the FreeBSD Security Team investigates vulnerabilities, publishes advisories, and delivers patches for supported releases.
We'll also discuss common operational mistakes that increase risk in production environments and learn how experienced FreeBSD operators reduce that risk without creating unnecessary operational overhead.
What you'll learn :
- An overview of FreeBSD security features, including jails, Capsicum, the MAC Framework, secure levels, privilege separation, and the FreeBSD security advisory process.
- Security best practice recommendations for production systems, including service configuration, access control, and system maintenance.
- How the FreeBSD Security Team evaluates vulnerabilities, coordinates fixes, and publishes FreeBSD Security Advisories (FreeBSD-SA).
- Common operational issues that affect production security, such as delayed patching, unnecessary exposed services, inconsistent system configuration, and unsupported software versions.
Date: September 2, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM EDT
Duration: 50 minutes.
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Meet the Panellists
Co-founder and Head of Solutions Architecture at Klara Inc., Allan Jude has been on the team since the beginning. Shepherding an amazing team of developers and sysadmins, he is the technical heart of our team. A core ZFS developer, FreeBSD contributor, and co-author of FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS, Allan is a community go-to person for ZFS and open source through and through. He enjoys spending his time improving ZFS, advancing FreeBSD, and making open source code better.
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Gordon Tetlow is the FreeBSD Security Officer and a long-time FreeBSD committer with more than 20 years of contributions to the project. He leads the FreeBSD Security Team's efforts to investigate vulnerabilities, coordinate fixes, and publish FreeBSD Security Advisories for supported releases. Gordon is also a security engineering leader at ServiceNow, where he helps secure large-scale enterprise infrastructure and services.