Abstract

 Loscocco, Peter    NSA's Security-enhanced Linux   

NSA's Security-enhanced Linux

Abstract

NSA's Information Assurance Research Group  Security-enhanced Linux   incorporates into Linux a strong, flexible mandatory access control architecture that enables threats to system security to be effectively addressed. The has long been interested in the problems associated with creating secure systems. SELinux draws from the results of that research. The release of SELinux to the open source community has proven to be an effective strategy for achieving many research and technology transfer goals. This presentation will give an overview of SELinux and how its security features enable systems to be configured more securely than is currently possible using mainstream operating systems.