ZDNet: Secure Linux OS Seeks Global Dominance

“The scarcity of security companies peddling enterprise-class
wares at LinuxWorld could mean that the job of making Linux
definitively more secure than its proprietary counterparts will owe
more to initiatives in Washington, DC, than Silicon Valley
innovations.

“Overall, the products on hand lacked the originality and
brand-name clout needed to wow enterprises. In the end, a
development effort with the aim of making Linux a staple of
governments worldwide may be what most convinces big business that
the OS is secure and enterprise-worthy. The National Security
Agency gave open-source software an initial boost when it pioneered
the security-enhanced Linux OS (SELinux) prototype a year ago, but
today universities are picking up the torch. The focal point of the
current open source security push is the Cyberspace Policy
Institute (CPI) at The George Washington University, which is
spearheading the Project E-Government Operating System (EGOVOS). At
an EGOVOS conference session at LinuxWorld, panel members made
clear just how ambitious their project is. Their goal? Make Linux
bulletproof and governments will be compelled to adopt it…”

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