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From the News Desk
Tuesday, 18. March 2008
Sun and NSA Cooperate in OpenSolaris Community to Develop Security Mechanisms
Sun Microsystems, and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has agreed to jointly work within the OpenSolaris community to research and to develop security enhancements to complement existing OpenSolaris security mechanisms.
Both Sun and the NSA will work with the OpenSolaris community to integrate an additional form of mandatory access control (MAC), based on the Flux Advanced Security Kernel (Flask) architecture. Flask, originally developed by the NSA, is a core framework within a security operating system that is flexible support security policies.
The joint research project is intended to complement the security benefits of the mandatory access controls provided by the Solaris Trusted Extensions feature and will be evaluated by the OpenSolaris community.
The NSA is responsible for global monitoring and decoding electronic communications, and in this function, a part of the intelligence community, in which all the intelligence services of the United States are combined.
Both Sun and the NSA will work with the OpenSolaris community to integrate an additional form of mandatory access control (MAC), based on the Flux Advanced Security Kernel (Flask) architecture. Flask, originally developed by the NSA, is a core framework within a security operating system that is flexible support security policies.
The joint research project is intended to complement the security benefits of the mandatory access controls provided by the Solaris Trusted Extensions feature and will be evaluated by the OpenSolaris community.
The NSA is responsible for global monitoring and decoding electronic communications, and in this function, a part of the intelligence community, in which all the intelligence services of the United States are combined.
