Fwd: Verano gets real-time with SELinux

Fwd: Verano gets real-time with SELinux

[Russell Coker]

NB I'm just a regular subscriber to Network World.  I don't know anything 
about what Verano is doing other than this very brief article.  If anyone 
knows more then a detailed posting would be welcome...

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Subject: Verano gets real-time with SELinux
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 00:30
From: NW on Linux <Linux@bdcimail.com>
To: russell@coker.com.au

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: PHIL HOCHMUTH on
LINUX
01/08/03
Today's focus: Verano gets real-time with SELinux

Dear Russell Coker,

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Today's focus: Verano gets real-time with SELinux

By Phil Hochmuth

If you're looking for a secure computing platform to run
mission-critical applications, there are dozens of vendors
eager for your business that offer a variety of products. Or
you could just turn to the National Security Agency, which is
what Verano did.

Verano recently announced it is using SELinux, developed by the
NSA, as a secure server platform for software products that
control and monitor industrial processes.

Verano is releasing its Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition (SCADA) software for SELinux. SCADA is designed to
allow real-time, Internet-based control and monitoring of
infrastructure at critical facilities.

Security Enhanced Linux, or SELinux, was developed by the NSA
as a version of the operating system with security enhancements
beyond most commercial distributions of Linux. SELinux segments
parts of Linux, and the applications that run on the server,
into secure domains, which are aimed at preventing some of the
"buffer overflow" and "string format" attacks that are used to
compromise Linux systems.

Verano's Enterprise Link and Real Time Application Platform
(RTAP) are secure software products used by customers such as
Boeing, ChevronTexaco and Bayer, and run on a variety of Unix
platforms. The company says it went with SELinux for SCADA to
provide an enhanced level of security. SELinux/SCADA is
targeted as a platform for running monitoring and control
software for facilities such as factories, power plants, oil
and gas pipelines, as well as public transportation and
utilities.

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