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Introducing Red Hat Enterprise IPA 1.0

June 19, 2008Security Team

We’re excited to announce two major bits of security news from the Red Hat Summit today: * The launch of the Red Hat Enterprise IPA product * The acquisition of open source identity integration provider, Identyx After the completion of a successful beta test program that was launched at the RSA…read full post

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Security, Open Source Style

May 27, 2008Security Team

Today we’re excited to announce another community initiative — the Open Source Software Security community (oss-security). This project is an ongoing effort to manage security information in open source software by building on the collaborative foundation of the open source model. The purpose of…read full post

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Red Hat Welcomes OpenSolaris and Ubuntu to the World of Type Enforcement

April 9, 2008Security Team

In the last few weeks, there have been three significant events in the adoption of SELinux and Type Enforcement. They’re all exciting, and each is a testament to the long-term success and viability of the TE approach. Even more exciting, though, is the fact that none of these announcements came…read full post

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Learn About Red Hat Enterprise IPA at the RSA Conference

April 7, 2008Security Team

For the last few years, Red Hat has been a regular fixture at the RSA Conference, and this year will be no different. We will be showing the recently open sourced Certificate System Dogtag project and we’ll be launching the beta program for Red Hat Enterprise IPA. Red Hat Enterprise IPA is a new…read full post

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Source Code for Red Hat Certificate System Released

March 19, 2008Security Team

Red Hat Certificate System was acquired from AOL three years ago as part of the Netscape technology acquisition. In keeping with our commitment to open source software, today Red Hat has released all of the source code to Red Hat Certificate System. Much of the technology in Red Hat Certificate…read full post

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Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 Released Today

January 14, 2008Security Team

Shortly after purchasing the technologies from AOL/Netscape, we opened the source for Red Hat Directory Server in the summer of 2005. Since then, the Fedora Directory Server project has attracted attention and contributions from the community and is now also at the heart of a broader community…read full post

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NSA Releases Security Guidance for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

December 11, 2007Security Team

Last week, the National Security Agency (NSA) released security guidance for securely configuring a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 machine. Red Hat’s Security Standards team worked with the NSA on this effort and we are excited about it because it’s the most thorough and clear security guide to date…read full post

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Long Live Kerberos

September 27, 2007Security Team

Today, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced the formation of the MIT Kerberos Consortium to further fund and steer the development of Kerberos beyond what MIT has been able to achieve to date supporting this protocol with its own internal IT staff.This Consortium is a great idea…read full post

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Third-Party Severity Ratings

June 27, 2007Security Team

The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is a US Government repository of vulnerability management data that includes databases of security checklists, security related software flaws and impact metrics. It provides a public severity rating for all the vulnerabilities named by the CVE (Common…read full post