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SELinux NSA's Open Source Security Enhanced Linux: Using and Administering SELinux
In SELinux these tasks are not much more complicated than in other systems, although the user learns some new commands to carry them out. And in the future, after SELinux has become widely adopted, the wrinkles have been ironed out, and thoroughly... [17 Oct 2007]
SELinux NSA's Open Source Security Enhanced Linux: Using and Administering SELinux
White Paper In SELinux these tasks are not much more complicated than in other systems, although the user learns some new commands to carry them out. And in the future, after SELinux has become widely adopted, the wrinkles have been ironed out, and thoroughly... [17 Oct 2007]
Enforcing Security Enhanced Linux Policies in a Networked Policy Domain
White Paper Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux), in particular, has been enabled by default in some Linux distributions for several years. However, current SELinux deployments only effectively control a single system. [18 May 2007]
SELinux and grsecurity: A Case Study Comparing Linux Security Kernel Enhancements
White Paper This paper reports the findings from a case study of SELinux and grsecurity, two prominent Linux kernel enhancements. In implementing Mandatory Access Control (MAC), SELinux is a MAC mechanism that provides domain type enforcement and role-based... [18 Apr 2007]
SELinux: Past, Present and Future
White Paper Red Hat developed SELinux to help the users protect against 0-day exploits. SELinux is the last line of defense on the system. SELinux utilizes Mandatory Access Control (MAC). This webcast provides a brief on SELinux. [14 Apr 2007]
Integrating Flexible Support for Security Policies Into the Linux Operating System
White Paper The NSA has implemented this architecture in the Linux operating system, producing a Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) prototype, to make the technology available to a wider community and to enable further research into secure operating systems. [03 Apr 2007]
IBM works with gov't on open source security trial
News The design is based on Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) and IBM Websphere, a mandatory access control application, which gives "need to know" access to security. Stephen Marsh, director of CSIA, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK: "We've been... [27 Apr 2006]
Security Enhancements in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Beside SELinux)
White Paper Upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions will feature the SELinux extensions, originally developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), with whom Red Hat now colaborates to productize the developed code. [02 Nov 2005]
Networking in NSA Security-Enhanced Linux
White Paper SELinux provides strong general security for networked systems. It allows systems to be locked down tightly so that services have only the minimum set of rights required to operate. This implementation of the principle of least privilege helps... [05 Jul 2005]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
White Paper Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 now contains the functional modules from what was previously known as 'SELinux' (Security Enhanced Linux). Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL 4) is the first release from Red Hat to support the 2.6 operating system kernel. [07 May 2005]
Red Hat doffs its cap at developers
News For example, it was the heavy Fedora feedback that let Red Hat graft the Security Enhanced Linux, or SELinux, feature onto RHEL 4 without much disruption to customers, he said. Top Linux seller Red Hat acknowledged on Friday a misstep in its... [22 Feb 2005]
Red Hat gets serious about government
News Red Hat recently teamed up with the National Security Agency and open-source community to collaborate on a security-enhanced version of Linux, also known as SELinux. Linux vendor Red Hat, which is delving deeper into attracting public sector... [02 Feb 2005]
Filesystem Labeling in SELinux
White Paper In SELinux, important objects, such as tasks, inodes and files are assigned a security context, a label that encapsulates the security attributes associated with an object. With NSA Security-Enhanced Linux now integrated into the 2.6 kernel and... [08 Dec 2004]
An Introduction to the NSA's Security-Enhanced Linux: SELinux
White Paper This paper will introduce the NSA's research project termed "Security-enhanced" Linux. It has been recognized that securing applications is only half of the battle: a computer system must also employ security policies at the OS level, and the... [24 Feb 2004]
Industrial Defender protects against digital attack
News Moreover, unlike Honeywell, Siemens and many other companies in the industrial application market, Verano doesn't build its products on top of a special version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, but on a security-enhanced Linux (SELinux... [11 Jun 2003]
