Sun Microsystems, the creator and leading advocate of Java technology, has defined its new infinite access security model.
The model, says Tarun Pranjivan, security ambassador at Sun Microsystems SA, will give businesses the tool they need to securely open up their enterprise to the network and extract more value from the Internet.
"Sun is planning to build multi-factor authentication, identity management and containment support into all its software products and platforms. Security is a lifestyle, not an afterthought - it should be integrated, invisible and infinite. Sun's model will deliver just that," Pranjivan says.
Sun's Java Desktop System, an affordable, secure and open standards-based alternative to Microsoft Windows, will be the first product to integrate complete support for Java Card multi-factor authentication technology.
"Inter-connectedness and open network communication opens up new revenue opportunities and delivers increased business value. The PC-centric security paradigm of taller walls, more bars and bigger cages hinders this progress and belongs in the dustbin of history. Sun is leaving this reactive model behind and defining an architecture that will deliver infinite, secure and privacy-ensured access to the network as an integral component," he adds.
Apart from making security integrated and invisible, Sun's infinite access security model will help create a managed risk environment that allows access to be appropriate and acceptable to the service providers in enterprises, consumer and governmental organisations.
Sun's expertise in the three core principles of infinite access security - authentication, identity management and containment - is unparalleled. The world's leading government agencies, such as the US Department of Defence, depend on Java Card technology for secure network identification cards; Sun's Java System Identity Server is the industry's leading identity management platform and Sun is a founding member of the Liberty Alliance, the inter-industry group dedicated to establishing open standards for federated network identity; and the next generation of Sun's Solaris operating system will include N1 Grid Containers, one of the industry's most advanced containment and partitioning technologies.
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