The access controls typically support inheritance along the lines of the directory hierarchy. We will not delve into all these details but restrict the discussion to the differences of the three ...

Modern Linux distributions ship with a plethora of security features and tools, and one of the most important features added to the kernel has been the inclusion of SELinux. SELinux solves one the ...

The profound growth in Internet-connected devices has heightened the need for secure systems, beyond the traditional bounds of enterprise IT gateways and servers. Embedded devices from wearables to ...

In my article “Security Features in SUSE 10” (LJ, April 2006), I described Novell AppArmor, a partial implementation of mandatory access controls (MACs) that is now part of SUSE Linux. Since that ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) is pitching its own high-security access control technology for the next version of the Network File System (NFS) protocol. NSA presented its so-called Labeled NFS ...