[ba-ohs-talk] Security-enhanced Linux
http://www.govtech.net/news/news.phtml?docid=2001.12.03-3030000000003951 (01)
"Microsoft Web server software powers about 30 percent of the world's Web
sites -- and 62 percent of the sites that have been hacked, according to
data collected by two Internet sites, Netcraft's Web Server Survey and the
Alldas Defacement Archive. (02)
Microsoft is also the prime target of virus writers. But that fact owes
more to Microsoft's dominance in PC software than any particular
vulnerabilities, said security consultant Chris Wysopal of (at)stake Inc. (03)
Microsoft's Lipner said the company is now releasing "lockdown" tools to
deal with the problem and is also no longer leaving "entry port" settings
open by default on server software. (04)
Even in the United States, where Microsoft dominates government computers,
agencies such as the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency
are experimenting with Linux. (05)
IBM Corp. reports increasing sales of Linux systems to the federal
government, along with a recent sale to the Chinese postal service. (06)
The NSA, the intelligence agency charged with eavesdropping and code
breaking, has even developed its own version, called Security-Enhanced
Linux, available for free on its Web site. " (07)