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SE Linux in Debian

I have now got a Debian Xen domU running the strict SE Linux policy that can boot in enforcing mode. I expect that tomorrow I will have it working with full functionality and that I will be able to run another SE Linux Play Machine in the near future.

After getting the strict policy working […]

Five ways SE Linux may surprise you

Frank Mayer of Tresys has written a great article on the techtarget.com site about SE Linux.

It seems mostly aimed at managers and novice users and explains how SE Linux isn’t really that difficult to use but is however a foundation technology that is needed for secure systems.

Check it out!

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LUG talks today

Today I gave three talks at my local LUG. The first was my latest SE Linux talk (I’ll put the notes online soon). The second was a talk about voting.

I asked for a show of hands, who has already decided which party they will vote for at the next federal election (about 12 people […]

Spooks and GConf

Jeff Waugh wrote an amusing post about SE Linux and GConf support. It’s good to see SE Linux being promoted to the GNOME community.

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presentations about SE Linux

I have just read the Presentation Zen blog post about PowerPoint.

One of the interesting suggestions was that it’s not effective to present the same information twice, so you don’t have notes covering what you say. Having a diagram that gives the same information is effective though because it gives a different way of analyzing […]

Xen and SE Linux – EWeek review of RHEL5

The online magazine EWeek has done a review of RHEL5. It’s quite a positive review which can be summarised as “good support for Xen as service (not an appliance), better value than previous versions with the licenses for multiple guests included, and SE Linux briefly got in the way but the Troubleshooting tool fixed it […]

SE Linux – not too difficult for new users

At http://tanso.net/selinux/ Jan-Frode Myklebust has documented his work in creating new SE Linux policy to run Googleearth on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. He discussed this with us on #selinux in irc.freenode.net (the main SE Linux IRC channel).

One of his later IRC comments was: <janfrode> btw erich, the reason for creating this googleearth module […]

The Inevitability of Failure

The below document was reproduced from the NSA web site with permission. I have moved three footnotes to comments within the document (footnotes don’t work well in HTML) and also converted the HTTP references to links.

The Inevitability of Failure: The Flawed Assumption of Security in Modern Computing Environments

Peter A. Loscocco, Stephen D. […]

Trusted Solaris vs SE Linux

Karl MacMillan writes an interesting review of a Sun article about SE Linux. Not only does he correct errors in the Sun article but he also summarises some of the features of SE Linux design and terminology that we use. If you are interested in computer security and want to learn some of the basic […]

questions regarding SE Linux

I just received a question about SE Linux via email. As I don’t want to post private messages containing material that’s globally useful I’ll answer through my blog:

> other than strict and targeted policies……other policies like > RBAC, MCS, Type Enforcement are also there….how are these policies > implemented

The two main policies are […]