Archive for the 'Commercial Products' Category

RHEL on HP Completes EAL4+ Certification

by James Morris |  Monday, July 16th, 2007

Following the recent IBM evaluation, RHEL 5 on Hewlett-Packard hardware has now also achieved certification for LSPP, RBACPP and CAPP at EAL4 augmented. Notable here is the way that these certification efforts were community-based, with the vendors working cooperatively on the same GPL codebase, sharing development efforts.

RHEL on IBM completes EAL4+ evaluation

by James Morris |  Monday, June 18th, 2007

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 on specified IBM hardware has now completed NIAP evaluation at EAL4 Augmented with ALC_FLR.3, against the LSPP, RBACPP and CAPP protection profiles. This is the first time that SELinux has been evaluated in this manner, and the highest EAL rating awarded to a Linux operating system.

Tresys Release Brickwall for Fedora

by James Morris |  Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Tresys have announced the release of Brickwall for Fedora. The Professional version of their SELinux management tool is available as a free download.

3COM’s new ONS blade uses SELinux

by James Morris |  Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

3COM have announced a new Linux-based blade, secured by SELinux, as part of their Open Services Networking (OSN) plan, which allows services to be embedded within their routers.

Tresys Brickwall Released

by James Morris |  Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Tresys Technology have released Brickwall, their SELinux management suite, which is available in several editions including a free “standard” version. (Screenshots).

Tresys Brickwall Enterprise Edition beta released

by Joshua Brindle |  Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

The Brickwall Enterprise Edition beta with network management capabilities has been announced by Tresys Technology.

Beta versions of Tresys Brickwall released

by Joshua Brindle |  Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

Tresys has released a new beta of the freely available Brickwall standard client and a new beta of the Enterprise client. see the press release for information on downloading the standard client or signing up for the enterprise beta.

Visreport 0.2 Released

by James Morris |  Friday, September 1st, 2006

Info-pull.com have announced the availability of version 0.2 of their data visualization tool, Visreport, which supports a variety of security-related log formats including SELinux, IPTables and AppArmor.

Screenshots here.

New SELinux Book Published

by James Morris |  Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Karl MacMillan announces the release of a new SELinux book: SELinux By Example: Using Security Enhanced Linux, which he co-authored along with Frank Meyer and David Caplan of Tresys.

This appears to be a very comprehensive book, including very detailed explanations of the policy language, how to use SELinux to achieve specific security goals, and information on recent features including the new policy infrastructure (much of which was developed by the authors).

Tresys Brickwall preview release available

by Joshua Brindle |  Monday, July 10th, 2006

Tresys has announced that a preview of their newest product, Brickwall, is now available for download at their products webpage. Tresys Brickwall allows administrators to configure fine-gained network access control for individual applications without having special knowledge of SELinux.