Novell AppArmor is the most effective and easy-to-use Linux application security system on the market. Novell AppArmor provides enterprise-class, host-intrusion prevention and protects the operating system and applications from the harmful side effects of internal or external attacks, malicious applications and viruses. As a result, businesses can protect mission-critical data, reduce system administration costs and ensure compliance with government regulations.

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Increases Linux application security

• Protects the operating system, services and all applications from threats - inside or outside the firewall - with host intrusion prevention solutions (HIPS) for Linux.
• Stops software attacks with proactive security before they can impact the system.
• Provides security confinement for large, complex applications or for individual small scripts.
• Supports large-scale deployments without the need for a large, unwieldy security policy.
• Provides deep kernel-level security per application with minimal performance impact.
• Uses application behavior enforcement to protect Linux operating systems and applications.
• Automatically identifies installed applications and running services that require profile creation.
• Creates behavior profiles by generating exact usage policies for any application or sub-process, defining its allowable behavior.
• Actively blocks any application or process attempting to access system resources outside of its profile.

Lowers IT administration costs

• Increases IT productivity by reducing urgent, reactive system patching.
• Makes patching a scheduled maintenance activity - not an emergency.
• Provides wizard-based administration and monitoring tools for ease of use.
• Includes more than 30 pre-built security profiles for popular applications such as Web, e-mail and remote login.
• Simplifies the creation and deployment of custom security policies.
• Does not require high-level Linux or security expertise to maintain.
• Allows customers to deploy per-server security policy in phases, application by application.
• Lets your customers apply a Linux application security solution in hours - not days.
• Seamlessly integrates into the LSM module for the Linux 2.6 kernel.

Ensures compliance with government regulations for privacy and security

• Provides the ability for IT to audit for security.
• Lets administrators clearly demonstrate that all applications with network access have been secured.
• Shows precisely what a particular application has access to, defining the exact bounds of a compromise to any profiled application.
• Red Hat* has limited tools for defining security policy and does not support policies for sub-processes. Its stated performance overhead is 6 to 15%, while AppArmor's benchmarked performance overhead is 0 to 2%.

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