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Firewall your applications with AppArmor |
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Wednesday, 06 December 2006 |
Traditional methods of securing a computer have revolved around controlling access to critical services. So, if you need to secure network applications, you need to police network traffic. But security vendors are realizing that securing a computer, in effect, boils down to protecting the applications instead. Novell's AppArmor is designed with just this is mind.
One would assume defending applications is as easy as guarding the whole gamut of services running on a network attached computer. But applications these days are complex and intertwined, sharing libraries and files scattered all over the disk. More importantly, Discretionary Access Control (DAC) allows a program to run with the permissions of the user executing it, which introduces the possibility of exploiting a defect in the application to gain super user privileges.
Read more at Linux.com
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