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NSA Releases Open Source Security Tool For Linux

Posted by samzenpus on from the here-you-go dept.

Earthquake Retrofit writes: The NSA's systems integrity management platform — SIMP — was released to the code repository GitHub over the weekend. NSA said it released the tool to avoid duplication after US government departments and other groups tried to replicate the product in order to meet compliance requirements set by US Defence and intelligence bodies. "By releasing SIMP, the agency seeks to reduce duplication of effort and promote greater collaboration within the community: the wheel would not have to be reinvented for every organisation," the NSA said in a release.

2 of 105 comments (clear)

  1. National Sheep Association? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why does the National Sheep Association in the UK do so much with computer security. Or is this the American NSA?

  2. Re:The NSA has done several things to help securit by EzInKy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Still, until the NSA really stands for Security and not spying, I think most of us will only touch this with a ten foot pole.

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