NEW: Security Enhanced OpenSolaris 2009.06 on Amazon EC2
Friday Aug 14, 2009
It is with great pleasure that I can announce the availability of security enhanced OpenSolaris 2009.06 on Amazon EC2! This release builds upon the work previously completed for the hardened OpenSolaris 2008.11 images as well as recent advances from the Immutable Service Container project. The end result is a OpenSolaris 2009.06 virtual machine image that is hardened, leverages a non-executable stack, encrypted swap as well as auditing enabled and pre-configured to record administrative events, logins, logouts, and all command executions. Just as with the OpenSolaris 2008.11 images, the hardening configuration of these new images complies with the recommendations published by Sun, the Center for Internet Security as well as the U.S. National Security Agency. This really cool thing is that they are all have the exact same guidance! I wonder how that happened?
Want to give it a spin? Check out the release announcement for more details. The AMI identifier is ami-e56e8f8c! Please send us your feedback!
As always, this work would not have been possible without the extensive support of the OpenSolaris on EC2 team. You are the greatest! Thank you so much for all of your help and support in making these images a reality!
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Posted at 01:46PM Aug 14, 2009 by gbrunett in Cloud Computing Tags: amazon auditing cloudcomputing ec2 hardening noexstk opensolaris security suncloud
