Sun and NSA Partner on OpenSolaris Secuirty
This morning Sun and the United States National Security Agency (NSA) announced a new OpenSolaris community project to develop a new Mandatory Access Control (MAC) based on the NSA's Flux Advanced Security Kernel (FLASK) architecture. Spearheaded by the NSA and Sun, the new community project is open to the the public at OpenSolaris.org. For more information, you can:
- Check out the press release.
- Listen to an audio recording of open source impresario Barton George interviewing Solaris security expert Mark Thacker on the new FLASK project.
- Visit the Flexible Mandatory Access Control project page on OpenSolaris.
