[KLUG Members] This Week's Guest Speaker

[Adam Williams]

This week KLUG has the privilege of hosting a guest speaker well known
in the Open Source security, and eastern Michigan.  If your an NPR
listener you've probably heard the name of his company, the Linux Box,
many times due to their generous sponsorship of public radio.  I hope as
many KLUGites as possible can give Mr.Benjamin a warm welcome to our
side of the state.  We'll be hearing about "Mandatory Access Control",
an advanced security mechanism whereby you can grant specific "super
user" privileges to various security contexts on an as-needed basis, 
while at the same time protecting your machines from the super user
context itself.  Think of it as: 'beyond root'.  Come and see.

Information on Mandatory Access Control and LIDS
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http://www.foo.be/lks/lks.pdf
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1234/urm0106m/0106m.htm
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/host_security_article-3227.html
http://www.lids.org/


Matthew W. Benjamin
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Matthew W. Benjamin, president, CTO, and co-founder of The Linux Box
Corporation, has over 10 years experience in Information Technology. He
is a contributor to a variety of open source software packages and
tools. Prior to co-founding The Linux Box he held a senior developer
position with Comshare, Inc. in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Matt had been a
consultant with Integrated Micro Systems prior to joining Comshare. He
holds a master's degree from the University of Michigan, and a
bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri. 

The Linux Box
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http://www.linuxbox.nu/index.php
The Linux Box has been providing services from training to software
development to customers users using Open Source software since 1999 and
are a sponsor of the Linux Professional Institute
http://www.lpi.org/