Sun and NSA open community project to drive security for OpenSolaris
This morning Sun and the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) announced a cool new community project. Together we have kicked-off an open effort to integrate an additional form of mandatory access control (MAC) based on the NSA's Flux Advanced Security Kernel (FLASK) architecture into OpenSolaris.
Talkin' to the man
Yesterday I was able to grab Mark Thacker who head's up marketing for Solaris security and virtualization to learn more about what this is all about.
My Interview with Mark (10:56) Listen (Mp3) Listen (ogg)
Some of the topics we tackle:
- Working together to integrate FMAC based on FLASK. Responding to customer and developer requests for strong security and familiar APIs
- Looking for a few good ideas.
- How can developers get involved? Where should they start? (hint: check out this link)
- You don't need to give up your privacy to participate (e.g. no retina scans required) and don't have to be a U.S. citizen.
- How Trusted Solaris morphed into Trusted Solaris extensions.
Good idea!
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Posted by wow gold on March 13, 2008 at 10:24 AM CDT #
BTW : just a note that this project may add stronger security to what is already there in Solaris. And, customers don't have to wait ! They can get started with Solaris Trusted Extensions TODAY in both Solaris 10 and Solaris Express Community and Developer Editions.
Posted by Mark Thacker on March 14, 2008 at 11:45 AM CDT #