Executive Vice President of Software John Loiacono to Present New Approaches
for Successful Enterprise Security in Keynote Address
Product Enhancements Help Customers Deploy More Secure Systems, Identities and
Applications
SAN FRANCISCO, RSA Conference 2005 - Booth # 722, Feb. 15
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun Microsystems, Inc., (Nasdaq: SUNW), extended its
leadership in the security market with key new initiatives designed to make
customers' businesses more secure, more efficient and more readily compliant.
In a keynote address on Thursday, February 17, John Loiacono, executive vice
president of Software at Sun, will elaborate on this strategy, and discuss the
challenges that today's enterprises face when attempting to deliver both
control and agility.
"Absolute security will never exist," said Loiacono. "Organizations must
build trust, not walls as security becomes a critical part of decentralized
network services. For 24 years, Sun has met the demands of the world's most
security-minded organizations to help them adapt to rapidly changing security
challenges and requirements."
Other Sun speakers at RSA conference this week include Chief Security
Officer, Whitfield Diffie, who headlines a cryptographers panel, and Vice
President of Identity Management Sara Gates, who will speak on auditing the
identity infrastructure for better security and compliance.
At the conference, Sun plans to announce new product features and
enhancements and partner initiatives that help customers achieve secure
systems, secure identities and secure applications.
Security in Solaris
With the recent release of the Solaris 10(TM) Operating System (OS), Sun
provides customers with breakthrough new security technologies like process
and user rights management, Predictive Self Healing, Solaris Containers, a new
Cryptographic Framework based on the PKCS#11 standard, and digitally-signed
binaries including utilities, libraries and kernel modules. Additionally,
Sun's new secure execution capability is designed to help customers ensure
that the code they are running has not been compromised. Solaris Secure
Execution gives customers the ability to verify that the code they are running
has not been modified at any time after it was produced by Sun -- or any other
vendor -- protecting users from Trojan horses and other malicious code
threats.
This integrity checking process in Solaris 10 can be automated with
scripts to provide assurance against both accidental or malicious tampering.
Running unauthorized, altered code can often have serious, even disastrous,
consequences such as sensitive or mission-critical information being exposed,
destroyed or stolen. This ability is also key to an organization's regulatory
compliance program.
A future update to Solaris 10 will feature automatic run-time
verification. This feature is designed to check the system's code at the exact
moment of execution, protecting against the possibility of unauthorized
modification between periodic auditing checks and actual use. Administrators
can also customize which signatures will be checked, and use provided tools to
digitally-sign code from other sources.
Additionally, after nearly 15 months of certification testing by an
independent organization, Sun announced that its Solaris 9 Operating System
has received Common Criteria Certification. Common Criteria is a recognized
testing methodology and is a critical requirement to many governments,
military and financial institutions. Except for Sun's military-grade Trusted
Solaris operating system, Solaris becomes the only general purpose operating
system with protection profiles of both Controlled Access Protection Profile
and Role Based Access Control at Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+). With a
long history of independently validated operating systems, this latest
achievement represents Sun's commitment to independent evaluation. Evaluation
for Solaris 10 is currently underway.
For more information on Solaris 10 security, please visit the following
URL: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/security.jsp
Significant Security Enhancements to Sun Java System Communications
Portfolio
Separately, Sun announced new security enhancements and industry
partnerships for the Sun Java(TM) System Communications products to help
customers protect information assets, ensure end-user privacy and facilitate
regulatory compliance. Sun Java System Communications products, including: Sun
Java System Messaging Server, Sun Java System Calendar Server, and Sun Java
System Instant Messaging, provide a scalable, flexible platform for deploying
e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging and other advanced collaboration
services securely and cost-effectively.
Cost-free Program to Improve Secure Service Delivery
Continuing its drive to make application data network infrastructures more
secure and more efficient, Sun also today announced its "Switch to Service
Delivery Networks" workshop. The workshop utilizes Sun's Service Delivery
Networks (SDN) architectural framework, Sun's Secure Application Switch -
N2000 Series and an analysis and consultation group that demonstrates how
customers can deploy this data services platform for scalable data centers
with high reliability. This free workshop can help customers take advantage of
the rapidly changing economics of Web service infrastructures.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a
leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that
make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the
World Wide Web at http://sun.com.
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Sun, Sun
Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, Solaris, and The Network Is The
Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems,
Inc. in the United States and other countries.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Jacki DeCoster
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(415) 294-4482
jacquelyn.decoster@sun.com
Ian Bain
Citigate Cunningham for Sun
(650) 858-3724
ibain@citigatecunningham.com
http://www.sun.com/news
Contact: allpress@sun.com
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