NEW 64-BIT TRUSTED SOLARIS 7 SUPPORTS SUN ENTERPRISE 10000, INTEL ARCHITECTURES.Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Inc. last week announced availability of the Trusted Solaris 7 operating environment, an enhanced version of Sun's scalable Solaris 7 OS that incorporates heightened security features for commercial and government applications. Trusted Solaris 7, the follow- on to the Trusted Solaris 2.5.1 environment, delivers 64-bit capabilities and supports the full line of SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill and Intel architectures, including the Sun Enterprise 10000 server. "Trusted Solaris 7 reinforces Sun's commitment to providing a secure operating environment across the enterprise," says Thomas Kreidler, president of Sun Federal. "We are delivering what our customers have requested: an advanced 64-bit technology that maintains complete binary compatibility with 32-bit applications in a security-enhanced environment. The Trusted Solaris 7 Operating Environment provides the computer security our customers need to secure their firewalls, communications gateways, web and commerce servers, guards and databases." Trusted Solaris 7's Mandatory Access Control A system of access control that assigns security labels or classifications to system resources and allows access only to entities (people, processes, devices) with distinct levels of authorization or clearance. These controls are enforced by the operating system or security kernel. (MAC) feature allows organizations, including banks and financial institutions, to process information at multiple-sensitivity levels. MAC labels correspond to the sensitivity levels of information, allowing data to be maintained separately in a single system according to each user's need to know. Therefore, a bank internal system, for example, could be configured using Trusted Solaris 7 so a bank clerk may view a customer balance while a loan officer can access only the credit record. Trusted Solaris 7 uses the Common Desktop Environment (CDE (1) (Computer Desktop Encyclopedia) What you are reading at this very moment. See About this product. (2) (Common Desktop Environment) A user interface for desktop computing from The Open Group. ) and can be customized to satisfy various security policy requirements. It offers advanced multithreading Multitasking within a single program. It allows multiple streams of execution to take place concurrently within the same program, each stream processing a different transaction or message. and support for symmetric multiprocessing, giving organizations moving to Web-based computing the ability to handle an increased number of network transactions. The environment also supports the Sun line of hardware based on PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). architecture as well as new transmission mediums, including Sun ATM, Sun FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) Often pronounced "fiddy," it was a LAN and MAN access method that had its heyday in the mid-1990s. FDDI was an ANSI standard token passing network that transmitted 100 Mbps over optical fiber up to 10 kilometers. , Token Ring and Gigabit Ethernet. |
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