Blog 5

Research the Internet to find out what AppArmor is and explain in your own words who and how you would use it. While you are searching find another cool tool you can install on Linux.

AppArmor is an Intrustion Prevention Program by Novell. It basically keeps your network safe from attackers that gain access to your network by exploiting flaws in software. Novell says that it is simple to use, however, I found other websites that said it was very complicated. Each application can have a different profile and the program can review application behavior and ‘learn’ what behavior is acceptable. AppArmor can keep logs and has a lot of reporting features and there are no licensing fees.

There are a ton of ‘cool’ linux tools out there. One that caught my eye was TestDisk. It is a utility that helps you recover lost partitions and boot files. It must be a pretty cool tool because it is included with a some live cds such as Knoppix and GParted.