November 24th, 2004
SElinux
In today’s world of high speed Internet connections, coffee shops with free wireless access, and way too many root kits floating around on the Web, thinking about computer security has become commonplace. To combat this issue, National Security Agency (NSA), with the help of Linux community, has developed an access control architecture to confine processes to only the files they need to complete their actions. This architecture is called Security-Enhanced Linux, or SELinux for short.