Despite what you may have assumed, there is an alternative to Microsoft when it comes to enhancements for Windows, and these enhancements are free and olpen source, so why call Redmond. J. Peter Bruzzese a number of these offerings in his InforWorld article "15 Essential Open Source Tools for Windows Admins." Here's a list:
While Oracle's Solaris engineers don't have exact figures on the number of Solaris users also using RBAC, they can be certain of the percentage: 100%. Why? Because from Solaris 10 forward it is impossible to turn RBAC off in the parts of the system that 100% of Solaris users always use. Darren Moffat blogs that the kernel always checks Solaris's fine grained privileges (82 distinct privileges in Solaris 11 Express), even if the process is running "as root".
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In his blog post "Secure administration of Oracle VM Server for SPARC (Logical Domains)" Jeff Savit describes how to use RBAC to secure an Oracle VM Server for SPARC system by eliminating use of the root userid and restricting power to specific users and roles when they need them. That step, along with restricting which userids can log into a control domain in the first place, should be considered for any domain environment, he contends.
Other tasks one may wish to consider include using RBAC to control access to guest domains consoles and to enable security auditing, he adds. OVMSS Security, Savit writes, provides the necessary separation of function that is especially critical in a virtual machine environment. He concludes that reference information for the tasks in his blog can be found in Chapter 3 of the Oracle VM Server Administration Guide.
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Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.3, which features an enhanced administration portal with role based access control (RBAC); offers Oracle Linux as a supported host platform; and delivers increased performance. Among the new capabilities in the Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.3 are:
Improved and simplified installation
Enhanced management interface with RBAC administration support
Yet another addition to Oracle's Hands-on Labs series is "Protect Your Applications with Oracle Solaris Security," which examines privileges, RBAC (Rights and Authorizations) and integration with SMF (Service Management Facility). Students are assumed to have completed the lab "Installing oracle Solaris 11 Express in Oracle VM Virtual Box." There are four lab exercises:
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