Karl MacMillan (RedHat) wrote this response to Glenn Faden’s comparison between Sun’s new Solaris Trusted Extensions and SELinux.
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The biggest misconception of this article that I want to address is that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is a “trusted operating system”. It is not and hopefully never will be. Instead, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a […]
Seagate is close to releasing a “secure” hard drive for laptops. Obviously, this product is targeted at customers where laptops with sensitive data have been lost and public embarrassment quickly ensued (or at least a quick public dismissal of any risk). It’s an interesting product to be sure.
Seagate will probably have significant sales based on […]
Securing and keeping up server environments is tedious enough, but what about all these virtual machines that are popping up all over the network? Blue Lane, which I’ve talked about in the past - here and here, might have found a cure for all those VMs wreaking havoc within your network.
Virtualization compounds the problem of […]
Glenn Faden, Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems has published this very insightful article about the differences between the Trusted Solaris successor - Solaris Trusted Extensions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux which contains SELinux functionality.
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Overview of the Trusted Extensions and RHEL5 LSPP Systems
The Solaris 10 Operating System provides new frameworks for containment (zones), user rights management […]
As part of their keynote address at RSA Bill Gates and and Microsoft and Chief Strategy and Research Officer Craig Mundie talked about Microsoft’s view of the security world which is basically separated into three distinct technology areas:
Evolution of networks. As businesses and the industry move forward on redefining network boundaries, policy will become the […]
Symantec just announced that they’ll buy Utah based software maker Altiris for $830 million in cash. The full press release can be found here.
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