Posted on 07/29/2015 6:00:46 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Multilevel Security (MLS) group says this policy-based architecture could apply to sensitive commercial networks as well as government agencies. A US government intelligence agency-developed approach for secure collaboration in sensitive government environments could soon be used by the commercial world as well. The so-called Multilevel Security (MLS) ecosystem, the basis of which has been in use for several years by Lockheed Martin in the Centralized Super Computer Facility, was recently demonstrated by members of a consortium that includes Lockheed and big-name vendors such as Seagate, CGI, Cray, and Splunk.
MLS basically provides programmatic access to various sensitive systems from multiple levels of user access, according to the developers. It lets an organization run all user and system security levels across multiple departments -- and far-flung sites -- simultaneously, rather than isolating them. Data can be segregated at different security and classification levels, and access is enforced automatically. RedHat Linux, for instance, offers multi-level secure operating systems for the MLS environment, and Seagate's MLS-based file storage can encrypt and label sensitive data at-rest and in-transit.
Among the key secure elements: role-based access control; data tagged with its security level and access control; encrypted data at-rest and in-transit; and forensics for intrusion detection and correlation of security events.
MLS members say it's a breakthrough for controlling the insider threat. If a user were to plug a USB drive into one of the systems in the environment, an automatic audit would catch unauthorized activity. So former NSA contractor and infamous insider threat Edward Snowden theoretically would have been caught in his tracks siphoning files, according to MLS members.
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Yep. Remember Robert Hansen of the FBI? Head of Counterintelligence (hunts down internal spies) and was a Russian spy himself. Who will guard the guards?
Lockheed Martin average to below average for anything IT or cyber related. I am sure their claims don’t hold up to snuff.
(NOTE: A quick search on Selinux will return 1 billion hits on people requesting instructions for turning it off)
Good movie for its time. A remake could work. I would get the cinema sins guys on youtube as script consultants with at least one guru of the field. Hollywood writers 2ould google whatever and write a lot of techno babble.
Here at MIT, they just rolled out a system that requires multi-factor authentication for campus apps. About time.
I read the trilogy (and saw the movie) a lifetime ago. For the past 20+ years I’ve had a “Colossus” server.
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