Fort Worth Linux Users Group Discussion Board

I was thinking about putting together a basic presentation on SELinux since Randy said that hasn't been covered yet. Hopefully explain the basic principles behind it and some examples of how it works. For those of you that don't know, SELinux stands for Security-Enhanced Linux. It is a project started by the NSA designed to provide a more grandular and flexible security controls to Linux. Is this a topic the group would be interested in?

Are agencies actually using this? i wish that NMCI was using this for the server base....would probably be much more cost effective and secure at the same time.

Yes, government agencies do use it. Mandatory access controls, which SELinux provides, are a requirement to comply with DoD Orange Book standards. It is enabled by default on recent Fedora distributions as well.

Yes I am interested in SELinux. I'd like to have an introduction to it.

Another way to achieve good security without going the virtualization route.

I am very interested. I look forward to your presentation.

Having run into SELinux a lot recently, I too would be interested in a good write up. Since I won't me at the meeting would you mind posting your notes online?

~Stack~

I am working on some slides at the moment. It shouldn't take me but a couple days to finish it up. Fair warning though: I suck at presentations and slides. This will be very rough since I don't have a lot of time to edit it. I will make sure to post the slides here when I am done and include some links to some good starting material.

The presentation will not be very in-depth. There is a lot to SELinux and I am not much of an expert. It will be more of an introduction to the concepts and tools.