Linux companies are increasingly focusing on product security because of the "favor" that hackers have repeatedly received from Linux operating platforms.

Guardian Digital and security Management Service provider (MSSP) Guardent launches new products that will improve the security performance of open source and Linux products.

Guardian Digital will launch a new product at the LinuxWorld Fair in New York at the end of this month as a complement to its web-EnGarde secure Linux Expert tool, which supports domain name server, network, and mail transfer.

Dave Wreski, chief executive of Guardian Digital, based in Allandale, New York, said the company's first launch was the Guardian digitally secure mail suite, which features anti-virus, anti-mail spam, web mail, and secure remote access. And you can use LDAP for centralized directory access.

At the fair, Guardian Digital will also launch content and policy enforcement center software.

Wreski said that the other two Linux security software Guardian Digital Security VPN server suite software and guardian Digital Internet acceleration and Management Server will also meet with users at the exposition.

Guardent will launch an enhanced version of its products in the first quarter of 2003 to analyze, read and arrange log data on the Linux operating platform.

Jerry Brady, chief technology officer at Guardent Company in Waltham Forest, said the analysis rules would target multiple unsuccessful hosts, block possible malicious attacks and Dos attacks, and monitor behind-the-scenes programs.

Security management is becoming more and more important for Linux users due to server paralysis and the ongoing hacking attacks.

A recent report by Aberdeen Group, based in Boston, shows that for it users, security risks are now mostly from Linux and open source software.

According to the research report of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), 16 of the 29 security problems that occurred 2002 years ago 10 months occurred in open source code and Linux.

Over the same period, Microsoft products had only 7 security problems, accounting for 25% of the total.

"Which is more secure for Linux and Microsoft," said Eric Hemmindinger, research director of Aberdeen Group's Information security department. The answer is Microsoft. ”

A security analyst says users must adopt security remediation instead of waiting for OS vendors to address these security issues.