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IEEE to Standardize OS Security Components

Posted by michael on from the pointing-no-fingers dept.

aster_ken writes "The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers has started work on a standard for securing operating systems, as a recognition that software security is 'limited by the operating systems that underpin them', the organization said yesterday. The standard, dubbed IEEE P2200, will address external threats and intrinsic flaws arising from software design and engineering practices."

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  1. In other news by Unregistered · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft creates own standards beaurou
    Deems Windows perfect, others not

  2. IEEE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Never mind a secure OS, I think these electronic engineers sound like very useful devices. Is there a review of one anywhere? How much do they cost? Do they run Linux?

    1. Re: IEEE by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3, Funny


      > Never mind a secure OS, I think these electronic engineers sound like very useful devices. Is there a review of one anywhere? How much do they cost? Do they run Linux?

      Yeah, I have an old mechanical engineer, and I think it's about time to upgrade to a modern electronic one in order to reduce the maintenance costs.

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  3. It would have been easier... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    if IEEE just redirected their new site here

  4. I've got a secure system by Jacer · · Score: 3, Funny

    It has no network adapter (modem or otherwise) and no input devices (as in all the ports ps/2 com et cetra have been melted shut or broken off) It has no hard drive, just rom, and It's in a chest rigged to explode somewhere at the bottom of the north atlantic! I extend an invite to all the hackers/crackers to try to by pass it!

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    1. Re:I've got a secure system by sean23007 · · Score: 2, Funny

      My only question: But does it run linux?

      Oh, wait. I mean: Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of those?

      Okay, fine. In Soviet Russia, secure system bypasses YOU!

      Welcome to Slashdot.

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  5. Standard: by noselasd · · Score: 1, Funny

    Do we need any standard but; "don't use any Microsoft products".

    (ok, I realize they really talk about a broader view of security, couldn't resist though)

  6. Re:Server is getting slow, here's the text by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Proof that moderators don't read the article. (Not like that was news...)

  7. Re:So What? by Jameth · · Score: 3, Funny

    I beg to differ. IEEE won't take them down, but it will bug them a bit. It is somewhat like MS being a rampaging bear, Linux being a horde of bunny-rabbits, and IEEE being a bunch of thorny trees.

    Linux hits the trees less, but it irritates the bear and prevents it from rears up. Eventually, after the Linux bunnies all mate like crazy, one bunny rabbit is born that is somewhat like the bunny in Monty Python's The Search for the Holy Grail. The point here is to mate Linux distros with each other until the perfect bunny emerges.

  8. MS by defishguy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh yeah... remember the RPC implementation that Microsoft chose for RPC? IEEE 666

  9. Not just the OS by gidds · · Score: 2, Funny
    A secure OS is of course very important. (For large values of 'secure'.) But what proportion of current problems are caused by the OS, and what proportion by apps?

    I don't use a PC, so I've largely ignored Blaster and the other recent viruses/worms/&c, but aren't at least some of them down to Outlook and other insecure apps? If every OS suddenly became 100% secure (if such a thing existed) tomorrow, how many problems would remain?

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