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March 10, 2008
Article #19660
Volume 121, Issue 2
Security
 

...opportunity to improve the security of an already robust OpenSolaris environment in a manner that may benefit government and commercial customers alike.

-- Jonathan Schwartz, Sun
 


NSA to Work with Sun, OpenSolaris Community to Enhance Security
Based on Flux Advanced Security Kernel (Flask) Architecture


United States' National Security Agency (NSA) will be working with Sun and the OpenSolaris community to develop security enhancements to complement the security benefits of the mandatory access controls provided by the Solaris Trusted Extensions feature. The plan is to integrate an additional form of mandatory access control (MAC), based on the Flux Advanced Security Kernel (Flask) architecture. [...read more...]

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