AppArmor Linux Application Security
Features and Benefits
You've invested a lot in your Linux infrastructure, so of course you want to protect it and keep your applications secure within it. At the same time, however, you have the ever-present mandate to cut costs. AppArmor® Linux application security helps you do all three: you can rapidly deploy powerful application security while reducing the burden on your IT department and lowering your total cost of ownership.
AppArmor protects your infrastructure from attackers who find and exploit application flaws by helping you rapidly develop and enforce security policies. These policies could, for example, define the scope of an application's access to system resources or enforce beneficial application behavior. AppArmor gives you the tools to protect your critical infrastructure without huge investments in time, resources or training.
Features
As an enterprise-class Linux application security solution, AppArmor offers the following features:
- Full integration. AppArmor is fully integrated with SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP1 and SP2 and with openSUSE.
- Easy deployment. AppArmor includes a full suite of console and YaST-based tools to help you develop, deploy and maintain application security policies.
- Powerful security. AppArmor protects the operating system, custom and third-party applications from both external and internal threats by enforcing appropriate application behavior.
- Reporting and alerting. Built-in features allow you to schedule detailed event reports and configure alerts based on user-defined events.
- Sub-process confinement. AppArmor allows you to define security policies for individual Perl and PHP scripts for tighter Web-server security.
Benefits
AppArmor Linux application security delivers a wide array of benefits that allow organizations to do the following:
- Quickly and effectively secure Linux-based programs
- Protect business-critical Linux-based applications and services
- Enforce system and data integrity with preconfigured templates
- Reduce business risk
- Comply with government regulations
- Manage ongoing return on investment
- Reduce total cost of ownership
- Improve IT productivity
- Enjoy consistent manageability
AppArmor is licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL) and therefore has no licensing fees. To try AppArmor, visit apparmor.opensuse.org.
Choose AppArmor for Your Application Security
To ensure that AppArmor Linux application security works optimally in your environment, Novell offers maintenance and support for AppArmor. This gives you a single point of contact for assistance with AppArmor as it relates to your entire environment. You can access the world-class Novell support infrastructure 24x7x365 for assistance with AppArmor; Novell provides everything from standard technical support to necessary engineering changes. Support technicians are trained on AppArmor to ensure their expertise in the technology.