The SELinux Developer Summit went pretty well yesterday. It was a long day: 10 hours of talks and discussions with about forty developers attending.

I've just uploaded slides from the talks, which may be found next to their respective entries in the schedule.

Some of the talks I found particularly useful/interesting:

• Josh Brindle on SELinux in ( Read more... )

I presented on the SELinux project today at the Linux Foundation Japan Symposium in Tokyo. The slides from my talk may be downloaded here.

It's been an interesting conference, with some smaller BoF sessions planned for tomorrow. I live micro-blogged the conference via my identi.ca account, which I guess turned out as a kind of public note-taking ( Read more... )

SELinux was a factor in the recently announced NYSE Euronext adoption of Linux:
NYSE Euronext also relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its included Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) functionality to preserve the security of its platform. With trillions of dollars flowing through the exchange each month, security is a large and very important ( Read more... )

In case you hadn't noticed, Fedora 9 has been released. One of the many goodies to be included is SLIDE: the SELinux policy development IDE. This should be great news for application developers who want their projects to work well with SELinux ( Read more... )

Dave Quigley has just submitted an Internet Draft to the IETF outlining the requirements for Labeled NFS:

MAC Security Label Requirements for NFSv4 (link)
Abstract ( Read more... )

We managed to get the SELinux developer summit schedule published a few days early. Hopefully, this will help people who are making travel arrangements to OLS ( Read more... )

The 2008 SELinux Developer Summit CFP is now closed ( Read more... )

The Call for Participation for the 2008 SELinux Developer Summit closes on the 18th of April -- that's this Friday ( Read more... )

We've just announced the SELinux Developer Summit for 2008, which will be held in Ottawa (as an OLS mini-summit) on July 22nd. A CfP will be issued early next week, where we'll be looking for people to submit talks and panel topics.

In previous years, the project has had the SELinux Symposium, generously run by Tresys, with an invite-only ( Read more... )

As noted at SELinux News, OpenSolaris has launched a new project, Flexible Mandatory Access Control (FMAC), to integrate the Flask/TE security scheme into their OS. This is the same underlying model implemented by SELinux, and follows other cross-platform Flask/TE integration projects such as SEDarwin and SEBSDThis is very exciting in terms of of ( Read more... )