[Dailydave] Marketing over Security?

[Paul Wouters]

http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/46337-1.html#

Hmm, immune to Denial of Service?  Genuinely Secure SourceT micro
Operating System? Which is not Linux so DHS ignores NSA's SElinux
(and opensource security strategy). And is missing IPv6 which is
mandatory which they will write from scratch or port from an
open source OS in the next 6 months.....

Interesting times.....

Paul

> DHS moves to strengthen domain name servers
> 
> The Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology Directorate
> has awarded a contract to Secure64 Software to increase the security of
> the Internet’s Domain Name Servers (DNS).
> 
> [...]
> 
> Part of the attraction of Secure64 is its Genuinely Secure SourceT micro
> Operating System that Secure64 said is “immune to compromise from
> rootkits and malware and is resistant to denial-of-service attacks.”
> Secure64’s product, which includes a secure DNS solution based on
> DNSSEC, will be supplemented with an incremental signing feature that
> will increase the security of DNS transactions.
> 
> The $1.2 million contract with Secure64, of Greenwood Village, Colo.,
> will simplify and automate DNSSEC deployment. The goal is to provide a
> solution that serves not only the U.S. government but other organizations,
> businesses and service providers worldwide.
> 
> The Secure64 product is deployed as a network appliance and
> can fit seamlessly into an organization’s existing DNS
> architecture. Alternatively, the product can replace an existing DNS.
> 
> The Secure64 product must also support IPv6 to comply with the Office
> of Management and Budget’s IPv6 mandate. Secure64 supports the
> resolution of IPv6 DNS transactions and AAAA DNS records transported over
> IPv4. Support for transactions over a dual-stack IPv4 / IPv6 environment
> is planned for later this year, with the development to occur outside
> this project contract.
>