Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Essentials Book now available.
Purchase a copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL 9) Essentials
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Essentials Print and eBook (PDF) editions contain 34 chapters and 298 pages
8. Security
8.1. Technology Previews
OpenSCAP
OpenSCAP is a set of open source libraries that support the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) standards from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). OpenSCAP supports the SCAP components:
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
Common Platform Enumeration (CPE)
Common Configuration Enumeration (CCE)
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)
Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL)
Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF)
Additionally, the openSCAP package includes an application to generate SCAP reports about system configuration. This package is considered a Technology Preview in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
TPM
TPM hardware can create, store and use RSA keys securely (without ever being exposed in memory), verify a platform's software state using cryptographic hashes and more. The user space libraries, trousers and tpm-tools are considered a Technology Preview in this Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
