Tresys Brickwall™ Now Available on Fedora

 Leading Experts Develop Intuitive Solution
for Configuring Linux Security

Columbia, Maryland–April 11, 2007 – Tresys, a leader in security technology innovation and services and a primary contributor to Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux), today announced the free release of the Tresys Brickwall™ Professional Edition for Fedora 6, bringing the power of SELinux and the ease of use of Tresys Brickwall to another operating system. Tresys Brickwall Security Suite now supports RedHat Enterprise Linux versions 4 and 5 (RHEL4 & RHEL5), along with Fedora 6. 

SELinux, the best Linux security technology available, provides a rich set of security functions but IT administrators often lack the expertise needed to effectively configure and leverage these capabilities. The Tresys Brickwall Security Suite builds upon leading-edge open source technologies to provide unmatched control over these powerful SELinux security functions — without requiring special knowledge of the SELinux policy language. Tresys Brickwall allows effective use of SELinux by any Linux user without the need for extensive training or costly consulting resources.

The Tresys Brickwall Security Suite includes three editions – Standard, Professional, and Enterprise – to meet varying levels of end-user needs. With Tresys Brickwall, administrators now have unmatched ability to configure, customize, and extend the security controls provided by SELinux. With the Enterprise edition, the first-ever network management console for SELinux, administrators can apply enhanced security across an entire enterprise, allowing administrators to configure SELinux for groups of systems and apply and monitor this security remotely. Key features of the suite include the ability to define network access settings for individual programs, built-in protection for many applications and services, customization of resource and file protection settings, and the ability to create custom policy targets for new applications.

“Tresys is very pleased to extend the power of Tresys Brickwall to the Fedora community"  stated Frank Mayer, President/CTO of Tresys Technology, a well-known authority on SELinux.  "Our Tresys Brickwall product nicely compliments the numerous open source technologies we have been providing the SELinux community for years. By making the power of SELinux accessible to many more people, we expect Tresys Brickwall to have a significant impact on improving enterprise Linux security on a global scale.”

More information on the Tresys Brickwall Security Suite is available at www.tresys.com/products. Tresys-sponsored open source projects are available at oss.tresys.com.
 

About Tresys Technology

Tresys Technology is a principal open source contributor to Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux), with an emphasis on making SELinux easier to use and manage. In addition to its extensive Secure Linux technology development, services, and training experience, Tresys is developing the Tresys Brickwall™ and Tresys Razor™ suite of products to allow Linux users and administrators to easily leverage the power of SELinux. Tresys also provides business and government organizations with expert security engineering services, including security testing, evaluation and certification support, cryptographic solutions, and security technology innovation. For more information, visit www.tresys.com.