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The still experimental but promising SEAndroid framework offers SELinux-like mandatory access control for the Android universe.

Now that your networks are secure and you’ve convinced your users to secure their passwords and software, it’s time to turn your attention to your hardware to keep it from being attacked.

Secure your enterprise, monitor system performance, and more by harnessing the power of Splunk to search, monitor, report, and analyze events and data from any source.

For its size, fail2ban, a utility that scans logfiles and bans suspicious IP addresses, punches well above its weight.