To help organizations' strengthen their networks against cyber threats
The National Security Agency (NSA) has released an open source tool designed to secure networks of organizations. The tool called Systems Integrity Management Platform (SIMP) is, according to the US spy agency designed to help organizations' strengthen their networks against cyber threats. "
The tool is available in the GitHub repository of the NSA, which was launched this spring. From the description on the source code sharing site, SIMP is a technology that is "designed to provide reasonable combination of respect for safety and operational flexibility. "NSA considers the tool as an essential element in the approaches of" defense in depth "of cyber security, and believes it helps maintain network systems meet safety standards in the United States.
Through its tool, the security agency wants to help governmental organizations and industry in their efforts to develop technologies that meet the requirements of the US security department. SIMP will allow them to not reinvent the wheel, says the NSA.
The release of the tool comes within the framework of Technology Transfer Program NSA. The program is designed for technology transfer by taking the codes developed by the agency and making them available to the software community. "The open source community can take advantage of the work that the NSA has produced," and in return "the government can benefit from the expertise and perspective of this community," said Linda Burger, director of the Program.
It is obvious that even if the national security agency of the United States seems to be well-intentioned on this one, his espionage matters reputation will make many skeptical about the safety of its network security tool. By cons, making it open source, the agency called the developer community to contribute. Implicitly, it is also a call to security researchers who can analyze the source code to detect apparatus combination flaws that could expose organizations to security risks.
The software is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 and 7.1, but also for versions 6.6 and CentOS 7.1-1503-01. It was published under version 2 of the Apache license.
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