Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 11:56:23 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NAI Labs Announces DARPA-Funded FreeBSD Security Initiative Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010709115521.038c3e10@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010709113300.85138C-100000@fledge.watson.o rg>
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This is WAY cool!!! Congratulations to all involved. ---Mike At 11:47 AM 7/9/01 -0400, Robert Watson wrote: >NAI Labs Announces DARPA-Funded FreeBSD Security Initiative > > > Monday, July 09, > 2001 > > > NAI Labs Partners With DARPA to Secure Open Source Operating > System > > > $1.2 Million Contract to Enhance Operating System Security > Services > > > NAI Labs, the advanced research group within PGP Security, a division > of > Network Associates, Inc., announced a $1.2 million contract awarded by > the > U.S. Navy's Space and Warfare Systems Command to develop > security > extensions to the Open Source FreeBSD operating system. This work, > which > is funded under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency > (DARPA), > will be done in partnership with members of the FreeBSD > developer > community, assuring tight system integration and rapid > technology > transfer. The project will be lead by NAI Labs Research Scientist > Robert > Watson, and NAI Labs Chief Scientist Lee Badger. The work will be done > in > part by sub-contractors from the FreeBSD development community, > including > Kirk McKusick, Poul-Henning Kamp, Jonathan Lemon, and Eivind Eklund. > The > $1.2 million will be paid over the life of an 18-month > contract. > > > Today's evolving military and business processes increasingly rely on > Open > Source systems to power network infrastructure, network services, file > and > database servers, and workstation environments. Unfortunately, > these > systems have traditionally lacked advanced security features, such > as > Mandatory Access Control, required for secure environments. > Likewise, > other advanced security techniques developed by the security > research > community have often failed to transition to off-the-shelf > systems. > > > The Community-Based Open Source Security (CBOSS) initiative will > address > these challenges through close collaboration with the FreeBSD > developer > community. FreeBSD is an advanced, high-performance operating > system > widely used by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and as the basis > for > embedded network products including routers and firewalls, due to > its > scalability, ease of management, and cost effective operation. The > system > has also formed the basis for substantial parts of Apple's Mac OS X > next > generation operating system, as well as products from a variety of > other > operating system vendors. NAI Labs, in cooperation with a number of > key > FreeBSD developers, will enhance the FreeBSD operating system to > offer > several new security services, as well as improved assurance, > providing a > direct technology transfer path for security research. This will > include > the development or porting of specific security technologies, > including > NAI Labs' LOMAC, development of highly integrated file system and > device > extensibility services to support security features, network > stack > hardening, kernel security model extensibility allowing tightly > integrated > mandatory access control, and application security work. Several of > these > components are based on or contribute to work performed as part of > the > TrustedBSD Project, a project which seeks to introduce trusted > operating > system functionality into the FreeBSD operating > system. > > > The Composable High Assurance Trusted Systems (CHATS) program at > DARPA > will focus on the development of the tools and technology that enable > the > core systems and network services to protect themselves from > the > introduction and execution of malicious code and other attack > techniques > and methods. These tools and technologies aim to provide the > high > assurance trusted operating systems the security services needed > to > achieve comprehensive secure highly distributed mission > critical > information systems for the DoD. This program seeks to enhance > the > existing approach to development and acquisition of high assurance > trusted > operating systems technology by advancing the security > functionality, > security services, and the state of assurance in current > open-source > operating systems and developing a long-term architectural framework > for > future trusted operating > systems. > > For more information on NAI Labs, please see: > > http://www.nailabs.com/ > > For more information on the CBOSS initiative, please see: > > http://opensource.nailabs.com/news/20010709-cboss.html > > http://opensource.nailabs.com/initiatives/cboss/ > > > >This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. >The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, >important events and project milestones. >See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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