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Archived Sun Security Articles
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18 Feb 2010
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Security News Bites [22832]
Short Items of Interest on Security
- Oracle and Sun Directory Services
- Oracle's Sun Identity Management Strategy
- “Identity Management: Securing Information in the HIPAA Environment”
- ZFS Crypto Project
- OpenSSO REST Interfaces for Entitlements Service
- DPS Coherence Plug-in
- Drupal with AMP Stack AMI build on Hardened Security OpenSolaris 2008.11 AMI
http://blogs.systemnews.com/
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25 Jan 2010
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Using the Service Management Facility Feature of OpenSolaris [22727]
Paper Recommends It as a Building Block for System Security
"Using the (Open) Solaris Service Management Facility as a Building Block for System Security," a paper by Christoph Schuba, examines how the Solaris Service Management Facility (SMF) can be used as a fundamental building block to improve system security. The Service Management Facility is a backwards-compatible extension to the traditional way UNIX services are managed with the rc (run command) utility command scripts.
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13 Jan 2010
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Two Approaches to Identity Management Project Methodology [22698]
Horizontal Implementation vs. Vertical Implementation
At its outset the blog "IDM Project Methodology" outlines the main goals of an Identity Management (IDM) methodology, including such aspects as basing project decisions on empirical experience rather than abstract formulations and containing all the complexities, and costs of corporate ID management projects as early as possible during the course of a project. Author Kostas Stamatakis writes that IDM methodology should, first and foremost, provide solutions to repeatable problems appearing during Identity Access Management project lifecycles.
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29 Dec 2009
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Protecting the Enterprise from Attacks [22533]
Mandatory Access Control and the Solaris OS
President and COO of Sun Microsystems Federal Bill Vass writes about developments at Sun in the area of enforcing Mandatory Access Control (MAC) with virtualization to confine Internet services with simple security configurations using the Solaris OS. Featured in the blog are the remarks of senior Sun researchers John Weeks and John Totah that explain how, in addition to enforcing MAC provisions, they also layered the MAC protection with what users ordinarily expect from employing all of the other Solaris security features combined with virtualization, eg. zones, and Internet community sponsored configuration guidelines such as the Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks.
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23 Dec 2009
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OpenDS 2.2 Released [22680]
Several New Features and Enhancements Included
With the announced release of Sun OpenDS Standard Edition 2.2 also comes the OpenDS 2.2.0. The open source directory server is LDAPv3 compliant and written entirely in Java. The new release brings several new features and enhancements including scalable import and indexing, external changelog, fractional replication, and more.
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