NSA releases Linux-based open source infosec tool (ITNews)

ITNews reportsthat the US National Security Agency is in the process of releasing itssystems integrity management platform - SIMP. "SIMP helps to keep networked systems compliant with security standards, the NSA said, and should form part of a layered, "defence-in-depth" approach to information security.NSA said it released the tool to avoid duplication after US governmentdepartments and other groups tried to replicate the product in order tomeet compliance requirements set by US Defence and intelligencebodies." Currently only RHEL and CentOS versions 6.6 and 7.1 are supported.