Since last week, new snapshots of the rolling release Linux distribution openSUSE Tumbleweed have been using SELinux access protection by default. By default, the Mandatory Access Control (MAC) is set ...

AppArmor hangs its hat on ease of use, and, while rolling our own profiles wasnt as easy as using the premade policies that Red Hat ships with SELinux, doing it ourselves in AppArmor wasnt much ...

In a significant shift, openSUSE Tumbleweed has transitioned from AppArmor to Security-Enhanced Linux as its default Mandatory Access Control system for new installations. This change, effective from ...

In my article “Security Features in SUSE 10” (LJ, April 2006), I described Novell AppArmor, a partial implementation of mandatory access controls (MACs) that is now part of SUSE Linux. Since that ...

Enterprises considering AppArmor technology are advised by Gartner to demand detailed information about the specific resources Novell is prepared to commit to ensure the success of the AppArmor ...

These days, security is one of those things everyone talks about and in this arena, many actually do something about it. Using mandatory-access-control (MAC) systems like SELinux and AppArmor can ...