This 32-page white paper from IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center establishes an architecture for providing enhanced security services for Linux-based Internet servers. Quoting from the introduction . . .

“The goal of this white paper is to establish an architecture for providing security services for Linux-based enterprise-level Internet servers. While Linux provides good security features, equivalent to other comparable operating systems, the emerging security threats require stronger security mechanisms in the Linux kernel. We present a design that will make Linux substantially more secure against modern threats while maintaining a high degree of compatibility for existing enterprise software . . .”

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