News announcements and press clippings related to the TrustedBSD Project.
The TrustedBSD Project will be presenting on the TrustedBSD / OpenBSM / Darwin CAPP audit implementation, and the SEBSD port of NSA's FLASK and Type Enforcement technologies to FreeBSD as a MAC Framework policy module at the 2005 BSD Conference Canada. TrustedBSD team members will also be attending WIPs, BoFs, and the FreeBSD Developer Summit to talk about the TrustedBSD work and integration of resulting components into the FreeBSD and Darwin operating systems. This grass-roots BSD conference is a great place to learn about TrustedBSD and other new BSD technologies, see you there!
The FreeBSD Project announces the release of FreeBSD 5.1, which includes substantial maturity improvements for the TrustedBSD feature set, including enhancements to the MAC Framework, additional MAC policies, and support for pluggable directory services through NSS.
The FreeBSD Project announces the release of FreeBSD 5.0, which ships a variety of TrustedBSD features, including UFS2 with native extended attribute support, OpenPAM, file system access control lists, a prototype Mandatory Access Control (MAC) Framework with a set of simple policies including Biba and MLS, and encrypted swap and file system support. In addition, FreeBSD 5.0 included large numbers of architectural and structural improvements relating to access control and privilege.
Network Associates Laboratories , together with a number of FreeBSD developers, announced that they have received a $1.2 million grant from DARPA to work on a variety of security tasks, many of which directly support the TrustedBSD Project. The Principal Investigators for this effort include Robert Watson, founder of the TrustedBSD Project, FreeBSD core team member, and Network Associates Laboratories Research Scientist, and Lee Badger, Chief Scientist of Network Associates Laboratories. This is covered in a variety of news forums, including CNET .
The online news service, www.slashdot.org carried an announcement by Chris Faulhaber describing support by Samba for FreeBSD ACLs now available in the FreeBSD development tree.
The online news service, www.slashdot.org carried an interview with Robert Watson discussing issues related to the FreeBSD and TrustedBSD projects.
The online BSD news service, www.maximumbsd.com , has an article describing the September Boardwatch Magazine interview concerning TrustedBSD.
The September print edition of Boardwatch Magazine carried an interview with Robert Watson about the TrustedBSD Project.
The online news service, www.slashdot.org carried an article about the initial TrustedBSD project announcement.
The online BSD news service, daily.daemonnews.org carried an article about the initial TrustedBSD project announcement.
Initial project announcement.
NAI Labs , together with a number of FreeBSD developers, announced that they have received a $1.2 million grant from DARPA to work on a variety of security tasks, many of which directly support the TrustedBSD Project. The Principal Investigators for this effort include Robert Watson, founder of the TrustedBSD Project, FreeBSD core team member, and NAI Labs Research Scientist, and Lee Badger, Chief Scientist of NAI Labs. This is covered in a variety of news forums, including