Platform and Application Security: Linux Distributions, AppArmor and More | Linux Today

Platform and Application Security: Linux Distributions, AppArmor and More

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 26, 2007

[ Thanks to E.
Stride
for this link. ]

Is AppArmor suitable as an alternative to SELinux?
Since SUSE is dropping support for SELinux, shold an IT shop using
SUSE switch distros?

James Turnbull: AppArmor is perfectly suitable
as an alternative to SELinux. Indeed, if your shop already uses
SUSE, then I strongly recommend investigating AppArmor before
making the significant decision to migrate distributions. I believe
you will find that AppArmor provides equivalent support to SELinux
and with the additional benefit of being supported under SUSE,
hence not requiring distribution migration…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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