Sun Expands Availability of Solaris Security

By Patrick Thibodeau

April 14, 2003 12:00 PM ET

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Computerworld - San Francisco—Sun Microsystems Inc. said last week that it will offer commercial customers a version of its Solaris operating system originally developed for military and government intelligence use. Sun intends to include the technology in its next version of Solaris, due in mid-2004.
The security technology, called Trusted Solaris, provides role-based access control at the root, dividing or limiting root access by user. It also creates audit trails, company officials said. The technology supports both Sparc and Intel-based systems.
Although the commercial availability of Trusted Solaris isn't new, the company hasn't marketed it broadly and interest has largely been limited to financial services companies. Beginning this spring, Sun intends to market an offering that includes firewalls and other access controls. Pricing will start at $999 for a standard desktop edition.
Because Trusted Solaris provides access control at the root, it allows companies to separate systems administration from operations, at the most fundamental level of the operating system. "Just because you are the system administrator and you have root access, I don't want to give you access to the payroll database," said Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president of Sun's software products group.

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