Security

Reference Documentation

• Solaris 10 Security Overview
  Solaris 10 system administrator's manual for using Solaris 10 security services.
• Solaris Cryptographic Framework (PDF)
  Detailed technical architecture and feature descriptions of the Solaris Cryptographic Framework, a new asset for simplifying integration of critical cryptographic operations in your systems and services.
  OpenSolaris Security Community Library
  OpenSolaris Security Community
  Center for Internet Security Solaris Security Benchmark
  BigAdmin Security Site
• Security APIs, SPIs, and Frameworks for the Solaris OS
  An overview of security APIs, SPIs, and frameworks for the Solaris OS. The overview is intended for developers who work on consumer applications or service modules.
• Security and Trust Services for J2ME
  An overview of the Security and Trust Services API (SATSA) optional packages, which provide APIs for communication with security elements, as well as security APIs for the management of operations.
• Java 2 Platform (J2SE) Security Architecture (PDF)
  This chapter from the Java 2 Security Architecture book provides detailed descriptions of the security implementation model for the Java 2 platform.

• Securing Web Services
  This article presents an overview of the basic concepts for securing web services. It covers some of the prominent industry standards developed to provide comprehensive security solutions, as well as the Java WSDP 1.5 XWS-Security framework, which implements the OASIS Web Services Security (WSS) specification.
• Java Class Security Properties and Common Security Methods
  Detailed developer documentation.
• Listing of Security related Sun Blueprints
  Search on security on this site to find the most popular and prolific topic on Sun's free best practices site.
• Sun Alert Weekly Summary Report (Subscribe)
  Get email updates of the latest security and support alerts to protect your systems as vulnerabilities and threats are discovered.
• Java Security Overview
  This paper gives a high-level overview of the security architecture in the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition version 5.0. It introduces the key application programming interfaces (APIs) and highlights the built-in implementations of important security standards across all of the relevant areas, including cryptography, public key infrastructure, secure communication, authentication, and access control.