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/
>
>
>
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