Star Security Is No Secret
Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Thu 24th Jul 2008 15:59 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Privacy, Security, Encryption NSA takes its Flask architecture to the open-source community to offer an inexpensive route to trusted systems. "What it really helps out with is something called zero-day exploits," said Daniel Walsh, a principal software engineer at Red Hat and leader of the company's SELinux team. "If you have a bug in your software that allows a machine to be taken over, SELinux [provides] another layer of controls to make sure that application only does what is was designed to do. SELinux is your last line of defense."
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