NSA Awards Secure Linux Contract

The National Security Agency has awarded the contract to develop a secure Linux operating system to Secure Computing Corporation. Secure Computing will use its patented Type Enforcement technology to develop the special Linux platform. The NSA chose Secure Computing’s Type Enforcement system to ensure important and sensitive U.S. intelligence information cannot be intercepted or accessed without authorization.

"The NSA has been a long standing customer and partner of Secure Computing," said Chris Filo, vice president and general manager of the Advanced Technology Division at Secure Computing. "Working with the NSA allows Secure to continue to advance the state of the art in security technologies that is required to enable safe, secure operating environments within the Department of Defense (DoD), while at the same time, providing the basis for our future commercial products."

Secure Computing’s Type Enforcement secures underlying operating systems and protects applications and network services by segmenting them into domains. Each domain is granted permission to access only specific file types, including executables. As such, each domain provides a self-contained, discrete layer of protection that cannot be altered.