Exponential Storage: Security Through Openness
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| Exponential Storage hopes to one day persuade the National Security Agency
| and other government bureaus to hire the company for its data storage
| network. Its focus on NSA seems to have potential: The agency already
| established that open source software can be made secure and uses it for some
| computer functions.
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/62113.html
Days ago:
Sun Set to Bring NSA Tech to Solaris
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| Back in 2004, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) helped the Linux
| community to build something called SELinux, which brings mandatory access
| control (MAC) policies to the Linux kernel.
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| Now four years later, Sun is getting the same technology from the NSA to use
| with its Solaris operating system. Sun's OpenSolaris community will work on
| integrating the NSA's Flux Advanced Security Kernel (Flask) architecture,
| which is a form of mandatory access control, for type enforcement. Flask is
| the basis of SELinux.
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| The Flask enhancements will be added to Sun's Trusted Extensions, which
| provide high-security labeling features to meet regulatory and compliance
| requirements.
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http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3734141/Sun+Set+to+Bring+NSA+Tech+to+Solaris.htm
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