Security

White Papers

• Privacy in the Participation Age (PDF)
  From the office of Michelle Dennedy, Sun's Chief Privacy Officer, this paper reviews how our progression from the Information Age to the Participation Age has affected enterprise networks, security and privacy.
• The CIO and the CPO - A Vision For Teamwork and Success (PDF)
  Provides background on the different perspectives of the IT organization and the privacy office and offers practical tips for how these two organizations can work together to effectively guard against security and privacy risks.
• Encryption Strategies: The Key to Controlling Data (PDF)
  Encrypting your data can occur at the host, in-band or at the storage device level. This article by the Data Management Group explores these options.
• The Executive View of Identity Management and its Role in Supporting Compliance (PDF)
  You aren't alone. Compare yourself with leading executives through this report from a commissioned survey by Forrester Consulting.
• Privacy for Pragmatists: A Privacy Practitioner's Guide to Sustainable Compliance (PDF)
  Sun's Chief Privacy Officer offers technology-independent guidelines for protecting employee and customer information.

• Toward Systemically Secure IT Architectures (PDF)
  Sun's security architects outline resilient architectural patterns for sustained security.
• Using Identity Management to Achieve Security and Compliance (PDF)
  Open, flexible, effective, yet secure. Ideas and case studies for successful application of identity management in the enterprise.
• Privacy and Data Protection - Mitigating the Risks of Information Exposure (PDF)
  A review of risks and regulations, with suggested remedies for protecting personally identifiable information using identity management tools.
• Secure Remote Access - For Developers and Deployment Engineers (PDF)
  This technical overview provides detailed feature descriptions and configuration guidance for deploying Sun's portal-based remote access server.