Episode 145: Mark Giveth, Mark Taketh Away

This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mark Thacker about RHEL 7.4 security and storage, and how to kill a feature

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 bolsters security functionality and performance, Linux container features and automation capabilities for complex IT environments
  • RHEL 7.4 launched Aug. 1, 2017 (RHEL 7.4 Release Notes for Security here)
  • Network Bound Disk Encryption
  • USBGuard (See Lucy’s excellent blog post on this)
  • Audit enhancements for human readability (ausearch --format text)
  • OpenSCAP NIST Certification
  • SELinux support with OverlayFS
  • System Role for SELinux configuration
• D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Btrfs
• Red Hat Acquires Permabit Assets, Eases Barriers to Cloud Portability with Data Deduplication Technology

We Give Thanks

• Mark Thacker for being our special guest star!

Special Guest: Mark Thacker.