[olug] FW: NAI Labs Announces DARPA-Funded FreeBSD Security Initiative

[Brian Roberson]

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> From: owner-freebsd-announce at FreeBSD.ORG 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-announce at FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Robert Watson
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 10:47 AM
> To: freebsd-announce at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: NAI Labs Announces DARPA-Funded FreeBSD Security Initiative
> 
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> NAI Labs Announces DARPA-Funded FreeBSD Security Initiative
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>    Monday, July 09, 2001                                      
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>    NAI Labs Partners With DARPA to Secure Open Source 
> Operating System          
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>    $1.2 Million Contract to Enhance Operating System Security 
> Services          
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>    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.             
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>    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.          
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>    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.    
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>    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.                          
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> 
>    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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