LinSec Future

LinSec, although functional, because of its evolving nature, is not finished and will probably never be. Further development shall be based on the feedback obtained from the Open Source community and future expansion of the areas LinSec is built on. Major directions in which LinSec will evolve are roughly:

• Extension of existing LinSec features or introduction of new ones in order for LinSec to be able to:
  1. Respond to new security challenges: In particular, LinSec currently lacks sophisticated network security mechanisms provided by most network intrusion detection systems. Also, the existing LinSec mechanisms have to evolve as existing exploits evolve.
  2. Fit better in the environments it is used in: For example, one of the interesting ideas is to expand the existing capability model to fit distributed systems eg. to provide capability based means of defining privileges in a distributed computing environments. Embedded Linux also represents an interesting challenge for LinSec.

• Natural evolution with the Linux kernel.

• Various optimizations of LinSec mechanisms, as outlined in chapters 6 and 7.

However, it is difficult to predict all possible requirements that will arise as a consequence of the way LinSec will hopefully be used in. Open Source world is full of surprises and the future of LinSec depends on its ability to overcome thus imposed challenges.