SE Linux

Hey everyone, today during one of my classes we were discussing SE Linux and it seemed to really intrest me. I thought about looking up some random facts about it, and try to figure out some interesting things about it. SE Linux stands for security enhanced linux and it a feature by linux to provide a number of security policies. It was original tested in 2000 by the "open source development community" and was developed by the National Security Agency (NSA). About SE Linux, the NSA stated "It provides a enhanced mechanism to enforce the separation of information based on confidentiality and integrity requirements, which allows threats of tampering and bypassing of application security mechanisms to be addressed and enables the confinement of damage that can be caused by malicious or flawed applications".

It is available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and for all future releases. Some of the features of SE Linux are its independent of specific policies and policy languages, as well as specific security formats. It also is a very flexible policy and supports policy changes.