Sun Microsystems Completes Solaris International Security Certification Process; Next Generation of Trusted Solaris Secure Operating System Released.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 1995--Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced today that international software security evaluation and certification processes for its secure operating systems -- the Solaris(TM) 2.4 Basic Security Module (BSM BSM Business Service Management BSM Basic Security Module BSM Best Stations Memory (Pioneer car stereos) BSM Business Systems Modernization BSM Bronze Star Medal BSM Black Student Movement BSM Benilde-St. ) environment on Sun(TM) 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 (TM) and Intel computers and the Trusted Solaris Trusted Solaris is a security-evaluated operating system based on Solaris by Sun Microsystems, featuring a mandatory access control model. Parts of Trusted Solaris:
These are the first Sun secure operating environments to receive certification from the U.K. Information Technology Security Evaluation and Certification (U.K. ITSEC See NCSC. ) board. While some of Sun's competitors have received certification for single-system environments, Sun is the first to receive certification for a networked environment. ITSEC certification is accepted in Europe, Canada and Australia. Sun's Solaris 2.4 environment was evaluated successfully to Level E2/F-C2, while Trusted Solaris 1.2 achieved the higher-level E3/F-B1. Under ITSEC, products can be evaluated from level E1 up to level E6. Level E3 is normally accepted as best commercial practice. E2/F-C2 equates with C2 in the U.S. TCSEC/Orange Book (i.e. with Discretionary Access Control An access control system that permits specific entities (people, processes, devices) to access system resources according to permissions for each particular entity. Contrast with mandatory access control and role-based access control. ) and E3/FB-1 equates to B1 (i.e. with 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. ). "ITSEC certification for Solaris 2.4 and Trusted Solaris 1.2 products demonstrates to government and commercial customers, developers and system integrators around the world our strong commitment to a secure operating environment," said John Marselle, president of 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. Federal, Inc., Sun's worldwide government business unit. "Sun's presence in the international government marketplace has been growing, and this positions us well as we compete for future opportunities." New Version of Trusted Solaris Sun also announced today that it is developing Trusted Solaris 2.5, the follow-on version to Trusted Solaris 1.2. This version is based on the recently introduced Solaris 2.5 operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. and incorporates benefits such as full multiprocessing and 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. support and a more robust environment that enhances performance. Sun plans to offer this newer version for certification. These secure operating environments are all based on Solaris, the world's number-one UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) operating system. Many government users seeking a widely installed, secure UNIX environment have chosen Sun's products. For example, Wing Commander R.J. Wallis, project manager for the logistics support systems with the Royal Air Force, said, "Trusted Solaris is critical to the development of the Logistic Support System for the RAF, which will provide secure computing to some 250 initial users in four countries in 1996. Sun has worked extremely hard over the last year to meet the challenging requirements of evaluation and our project timetable. We are delighted with their success and support." The Trusted Solaris environment offers users a highly secure operating system with distributed client-server computing, along with the ease of use, power and system management available from Sun's commercial products. Information can be shared throughout the entire enterprise with strict security maintained. Sun supplies government customers with distributed computing technologies, products and services. Sun's innovative network computing solutions use "open" (non-proprietary) technologies and include networked workstations and servers, operating systems software and other value-added technologies. Sun systems are used by government agencies all over the world and at all levels for many demanding tasks ranging from command and control, law enforcement, land management, geographic information systems, traffic monitoring, and tax form processing to delivering social services. With annual revenues of $6 billion, Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides solutions that enable customers to build and maintain open network computing See ONC. Open Network Computing - (ONC) Sun's network protocols. environments. Widely recognized as a proponent of open standards, the company is involved in the design, manufacture and sale of products, technologies and services for commercial and technical computing. Sun's SPARC(TM) workstations, multiprocessing servers, SPARC microprocessors, Solaris(TM) operating software and ISO-certified service organization each rank No. 1 in the UNIX(R)industry. Founded in 1982, Sun is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and employs more than 14,000 people worldwide. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Solaris and Trusted Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are under license and are trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based on an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. All other product or service names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. Press announcements and other information about Sun Microsystems are available on the Internet via the World Wide Web using a tool such as Netscape or NCSA (1) (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana-Champaign, IL, www.ncsa.uiuc.edu) A high-performance computing facility located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mosaic. Type http://www.sun.com at the URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. prompt. CONTACT: Sun Microsystems John Leahy, 703/204-4818 or Burson Marsteller Jane Rauckhorst, 212/614-4880 |
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