September 2005 Topic

schultmc

We have several available speakers for the September meeting. What topic would you like to hear at the September meeting?

Dr. Ram Rao of HP has volunteered to speak at the September meeting. He's planning on discussing a Survey of Virtulization Technologies for Linux. Dr. Rao spoke on Xen at the May 2005 meeting and plans on covering a variety of virtualization technologies (including Xen) in his talk.

Josh Bressers of RedHat has volunteered to speak at the September meeting on Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux)

Matt Jonkman of InfoTex has volunteered to speak on anti-spyware, spam fighting, and an update on BleedingSnort at an upcoming meeting. Mr. Jonkman gave a talk on BleedingSnort at the February 2005 meeting.

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Submitted by schultmc on Thu, 2005-08-04 12:19. login or register to post comments

db
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Re: September 2005 Topic

I'll repost what I posted on the mailing list...

I'd like to hear about how SELinux can be configured to pass the government NISPOM chapter 8 auditing policy requirements; specifically DSS C2 PL-1 audits for systems where ALL users have formal access approval and ALL users have the "need-to-know." By the way, to folks on this list who don't know the jargon, the DSS is the Defense Security Service and their website is ( http://www.dss.mil ). CA stands for Controlled Access Protection see ( http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/secpubs/rainbow/std001.txt ) and PL-1 stands for Protection Level 1 and it is the easiest of the 4 levels to pass...however it is by no means easy to pass. Chapter 8 of the NISPOM can be seen here ( http://www.dss.mil/isec/change_ch8.htm ). I have been using a product called Snare for Linux ( http://www.intersectalliance.com/projects/Snare/ ) to pass these audits.

In regards to the time-frame, I'd rather have Josh do the Sept. presentation (since I will most likely not be able to make the October one due to a new member of my family arriving at that time). Not that I wouldn't LOVE to hear Dr. Rao speak again, but I am somewhat involved in Linux Security at Rolls-Royce and I really want to hear about the SELinux stuff.

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Cheers,
Dave Brown


Thu, 2005-08-04 13:12 login or register to post comments

gh
Re: September 2005 Topic

I would love to hear about SELinux this September.

I am currently monitoring machines with Nagios and graphing with PerfParse. If you're interested in hearing about it I could speak in October or whenever is free.


Tue, 2005-08-09 17:19 login or register to post comments

Anonymous
Re: September 2005 Topic

I am interested in both Ram and John's topics. If possible lock one of them for sept. and one for oct. Its nice to know what is comming in the future.


Fri, 2005-08-12 19:15 login or register to post comments

Anonymous
Re: September 2005 Topic

I vote for SELinux


Wed, 2005-08-17 11:14 login or register to post comments

schultmc
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Re: September 2005 Topic

We've planned out the next 3 months:

September: Dr. Ram Rao with a Survey on Virtualization Technologies in Linux

October: Garrett Honeycutt with Machine Monitoring with Nagios and
graphing with PerfParse

November: Josh Bressers on SELinux


Wed, 2005-08-17 14:28 login or register to post comments