How to Secure Ubuntu With AppArmor
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AppArmor is one way to protect your assets on your Ubuntu Gutsy system. AppArmor attempts to protect processes on the server or desktop from security threats. AppArmor enforces limits on what processes can access on the system.
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The general purpose is to provide additional security to your desktop or server running AppArmor. The way this is done is that restrictions are placed on the application in terms of what it can do and what resources it may access. AppArmor is application centric. In other words, AppArmor has it's focus on limiting the behavior of applications on an individual basis whereas SELinux is a system wide concept. AppArmor has the focus in thinking in terms of guarding individual programs. The theory is that at the application level is where the major of security issues arise. Full Story |
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