Linux network security

FORT MEADE, Md. -- The U.S. National Security Agency, with help from Network Associates of Santa Clara, Calif., has made a security-enhanced version of Linux available for download. The government security arm said it realizes that operating system security is necessary and that mainstream operating systems often lack critical security features that could enforce the confidentiality and integrity of network communications.

Dubbed Security-Enhanced (SE) Linux, the NSA's version enables programs to have the slimmest security permissions to run and at present only supports the Intel x86 platform.

Users can download it from www.nsa.gov/selinux/index.html

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