Talk:Security Handbook

Security best practices for the year 2017
We'll use this section to keep track of best practices to be added or removed from the Security Handbook:

By topic:

Unclear focus of this handbook
The focus of this security handbook isn't entirely clear to me. Quite a bit of information from this handbook has overlap with package-specific wiki-articles. Especially for inherent security packages, such as firewalls, intrusion detection, this confused me. What is the goal of this handbook in relation to the information on configuring a package securely that can be found in the package-specific articles?