D r i v e r s a n d P a i n P o i n t s

The events of 9/11 drove home the need for government agencies to
securely collaborate and share relevant data. In fact, the 9/11
Commission report specifically mentions this need and a presidential
directive mandates better security. Some of the pain points driving the
need for trusted Linux include:

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● Abuse of system privilege to gain access to protected system
resources
● Undermining application-enforced access controls to bypass
application security rules
● Supply of bogus security decision-making information
● Illegitimate use of unprotected system resources
A properly installed and configured trusted Linux system can address
each of these issues because of the way it's designed.

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The Cost Factor: Cost-Effective Licensing and Access to
Commodity Architecture Servers ]

One of the largest pain points for trusted systems has been high cost;
they have been significantly more expensive than traditional systems.
Trusted Linux should address this issue because it plugs into the open
source Linux model that requires OS enhancements to be made
available to all.

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However, it's unlikely that many government customers will
download, install, and manage trusted Linux systems by themselves.
Servers (and occasional client machines) running trusted Linux will
usually be integrated into larger systems and solutions. As such, the
SIs that build and manage these systems for the government will often
install them.

Because trusted Linux can run on commodity Intel architecture
servers, further cost savings may be realized. Performance should not
be a significant issue because systems can be configured to achieve
top-level performance on machines with higher-end processors (e.g.,
symmetric multiprocessors [SMPs] and blades).

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