National Security Agency Director of Information Assurance to be Keynote Speaker at Third Security Enhanced Linux Symposium.BALTIMORE -- Richard Schaeffer, Director of Information Assurance for the National Security Agency (NSA NSA abbr. National Security Agency Noun 1. NSA - the United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign ), will be a keynote speaker for the third annual Security Enhanced Linux See SELinux. (SELinux) Symposium (www.selinux-symposium.org), scheduled for March 12-16, 2007 in Baltimore, Maryland "Baltimore" redirects here. For the surrounding county, see Baltimore County, Maryland. For other uses, see Baltimore (disambiguation). Baltimore is an independent city located in the state of Maryland in the United States. . The Information Assurance Directorate (IAD (Integrated Access Device) A device that multiplexes a variety of communications technologies in the customer's premises onto a single telephone line for transmission to the carrier. It also demultiplexes the incoming streams into their respective channels. ) is the NSA mission element charged with providing products and services critical to protecting the United States' national security systems. IAD is also responsible for defining and implementing the Information Assurance Strategy to protect the Department of Defense's (DoD) Global Information Grid The globally interconnected, end-to-end set of information capabilities, associated processes and personnel for collecting,processing, storing, disseminating and managing information on demand to warfighters, policy makers, and support personnel. (GIG). Moreover, IAD supports ongoing military operations against terrorism by delivering solutions that allow the secure and dynamic sharing of information across security domains at multiple classification levels in today's net-centric environment. Consistent with its national security mission, NSA originally developed and publicly released SELinux as a demonstration that high-end security access control features could be successfully integrated into mainstream open source technology. At this year's symposium, Mr. Schaeffer will present a keynote address entitled "SELinux: An Example of a Better Path to Information Assurance through Partnership." In this address, Mr. Schaeffer will discuss the benefits to both Government and business organizations that can be gained by working with the open source community. About the SELinux Symposium The Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) Symposium is an annual exchange of ideas, technology, and research involving SELinux. SELinux is emerging technology that adds flexible, strong mandatory access control A system of access control that assigns security labels or classifications to system resources and allows access only to entities (people, processes, devices) with distinct levels of authorization or clearance. These controls are enforced by the operating system or security kernel. security to Linux. The third annual symposium is scheduled for March 12-16, 2007 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. This year's symposium is sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Red Hat, and Tresys Technology. The event brings together experts from business, government, and academia to share research, development, and application experiences using SELinux. For information on registration and sponsorship opportunities, see www.selinux-symposium.org. |
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