Jul, 2001 : U.S. Military Helps Fund FreeBSD Project
📅 - NAI Labs (nai.com), the research group of security software company Network Associates, announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Defense granted $1.2 million to a community project designed to boost security features to FreeBSD, an open-source Unix variant.
"Security can be seen as an investment and a form of insurance," Robert Watson, a FreeBSD Core Team member and research scientist at NAI Labs told CNET. "We're taking a multipronged approach to address a number of parts of the security problem: Some have to do with an immediate short-term payoff, but many of them have to do with exploring how to make FreeBSD a better platform for new security work so as to facilitate future research."
FreeBSD is a major component in the foundation Apple's Mac OS X. NAI Labs is looking into the possibility that the security technology added to FreeBSD could be compatible with Darwin, the Unix foundation of the operating system.
NAI Labs' Community-Based Open-Source Security (CBOSS) project aims to add a common set of security features to open-source operating systems, including encrypted file systems, stronger network components that protect against denial-of-service attacks, and extensions to the kernel, allowing future security improvements added easily.
The grant was awarded by the U.S. Navy's Space and Warfare Systems Command as part of the Defense Department's private-sector funding arm, known as DARPA. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has a history of awarding cash to open-source security initiatives, which can be used to protect systems from malicious code and other network attacks. This is part of a five-year program that specifically requests that projects include unclassified work from the open-source operating system development community.
"Security can be seen as an investment and a form of insurance," Robert Watson, a FreeBSD Core Team member and research scientist at NAI Labs told CNET. "We're taking a multipronged approach to address a number of parts of the security problem: Some have to do with an immediate short-term payoff, but many of them have to do with exploring how to make FreeBSD a better platform for new security work so as to facilitate future research."
FreeBSD is a major component in the foundation Apple's Mac OS X. NAI Labs is looking into the possibility that the security technology added to FreeBSD could be compatible with Darwin, the Unix foundation of the operating system.
NAI Labs' Community-Based Open-Source Security (CBOSS) project aims to add a common set of security features to open-source operating systems, including encrypted file systems, stronger network components that protect against denial-of-service attacks, and extensions to the kernel, allowing future security improvements added easily.
The grant was awarded by the U.S. Navy's Space and Warfare Systems Command as part of the Defense Department's private-sector funding arm, known as DARPA. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has a history of awarding cash to open-source security initiatives, which can be used to protect systems from malicious code and other network attacks. This is part of a five-year program that specifically requests that projects include unclassified work from the open-source operating system development community.
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