Solaris 10 Security Essentials - Softcover

Sun Microsystems Security Engineers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137012330 ISBN 13: 9780137012336

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2009

Synopsis

Solaris 10 Security Essentials Solarisa 10 Security Essentials describes the various security technologies contained in the Solaris operating system. The book describes how to make installations secure and how to configure the OS to the particular needs of your environment, whether your systems are on the edge of the Internet or running a data center. The authors present the material in a straightforward way that makes a seemin... Full description

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From the Back Cover

Solaris™ 10 Security Essentials describes the various security technologies contained in the Solaris operating system. The book describes how to make installations secure and how to configure the OS to the particular needs of your environment, whether your systems are on the edge of the Internet or running a data center. The authors present the material in a straightforward way that makes a seemingly arcane subject accessible to system administrators at all levels.

 

The strengths of the Solaris operating system’s security model are its scalability and its adaptability. It can protect a single user with login authentication or multiple users with Internet and intranet configurations requiring user-rights management, authentication, encryption, IP security, key management, and more. This book is written for users who need to secure their laptops, network administrators who must secure an entire company, and everyone in between.

 

The book’s topics include

• Zones virtualization security
• System hardening
• Trusted Extensions (Multi-layered Security)
• Privileges and role-based access control (RBAC)
• Cryptographic services and key management
• Auditing
• Network security
• Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)

Solaris™ 10 Security Essentials is the first in a new series on Solaris system administration. It is a superb guide to deploying and managing secure computer environments.

About the Author

This book is the work of the engineers, architects, and writers at Sun Microsystems who conceptualized the services, wrote the procedures, and coded the Solaris OS’s security features. These authors bring a vast range of industry and academic experience to the business of creating and deploying secure operating systems. Authors include Glenn Brunette, Hai-May Chao, Martin Englund, Glenn Faden, Mark Fenwick, Valerie Anne Fenwick, Wyllys Ingersoll, Wolfgang Ley, Darren Moffat, Pravas Kumar Panda, Jan Pechanec, Mark Phalan, Darren Reed, Scott Rotondo, Christoph Schuba, Sharon Read Veach, Joep Vesseur, and Paul Wernau.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0137012330
• ISBN 13: 9780137012336
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312