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new areas in security ?

  • 10-02-2004 5:04pm
    #1
    Gavin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭


    Yup, it's that time of year again when all the students are looking for projects.

    What are interesting new areas of security ? or areas that people reckon could be getting bigger ?

    Stuff I've looked at is SELinux, and possibly implementing a policy server daemon for controlling a selinux lan. Possibly plugging this into an IDS and dynamicly restricting traffic based on the IDS output. A bit dodgy though as it could be fairly vulnerable to a DOS.

    Implement the TCPA spec on some sort of bootable medium. Install a driver, accessed via a BIOS interrupt. Would be able to interact with the IBM TPM driver software and allow for people to experiment with trusted computing without having to get a TCPA enabled motherboard/smartcard.

    just rough ideas I've had not amazing well thought out. Curious for people in the know's ideas/opinions. Good/interesting areas to look at ?

    Gav


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  • #2
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    There is nothing really new as such to security that hasn't been there before, rather there are only finer grained enhancements of predecessors. I've already noticed you have a keen interest in trusted standards and SELinux is definately a great choice to build knowledge on. You should also check out the trustedbsd extensions for freeBSD if you are keen in implementing MAC access standards and other hardening policies.

    Going from trusted standards to non-trusted, you could setup a honeypot/net for personal logging purposes, you would be amazed with the amount of information you will receive by just mainining one for a few months. Give it a try..

    Other than that, there is nothing extremely interesting to look at.. Or at least nothing that I can think of right now.

    Regards,
    John.


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