Sun Microsystems Intros Open Source Cloud Security Capabilities

Sun Microsystems reportedly announced the unveiling of innovative open source cloud security capabilities and also unveiled support for the Security Guidance from the Cloud Security Alliance.

 

In a news release, Sun sources said that the company was striving to provide optimized practices and technologies that will help users protect their critical data in the enterprise and in the cloud. Sun’s Cloud security architectural building blocks will help the delivery of enterprise-grade cloud services. These are expected to be secure, easily available and manageable when deployed in public, private or hybrid cloud environments.

 

The built-in security capabilities of Sun’s Solaris Operating Systems including Solaris ZFS and Solaris Containers are employed by the security tools to secure data in transit, data at rest and data in use in the cloud. It also works working with cloud offerings from other vendors like Amazon and Eucalyptus.

 

Sun also announced its support for the Cloud Security Alliance’s “Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing – Version 2.1.” the new framework offers concise and actionable guidance for secure adoption of cloud computing and it includes knowledge gleaned from real world deployments.

 

“Sun’s technologies, best practices and work with leading industry organizations like the Cloud Security Alliance help provide our customers and partners with a framework for securing data in cloud environments,” Lew Tucker, chief technology officer, Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems (News - Alert), said.

 

The recently published white paper from Sun titled “Building Customer Trust in Cloud Computing with Transparent Security,” provides an overview of transparent security and the ways by which customer confidence can be improved. Intelligent disclosure of security design, practices and procedures can help gain customer confidence and protect critical security features and data thereby improving overall governance.

 

“Security remains one of the major concerns for enterprise customers moving to the cloud,” Glenn Brunette, engineer and chief security architect, Sun Microsystems, said. “Sun's new security tools will help address several of these fundamental issues and enable customers to realize the benefits of cloud computing while also managing risk and safeguarding critical assets.”

 

The open source Cloud Security tools introduced by Sun include OpenSolaris VPC Gateway (News - Alert), Immutable Service Containers, Security Enhanced Virtual Machine Images and Cloud Safety Box, sources at Sun Microsystems said.

 

Sun is working toward building and deploying public and private clouds that are open and interoperable. The Sun Open Cloud Platform is powered by Sun’s software, hardware and storage and it delivers a scalable cloud infrastructure.