Building security into the underlying standards defining the Network

Sun believes in security through openness. Security standards should be open to being created, tested, analyzed and challenged by a huge community of intelligent programmers, developers and security experts.

Sun  announced support for leading security and identity open standards efforts, demonstrating its continued commitment to building security into the underlying standards defining the Network.

• OASIS PKI Action Plan: Today, with Sun’s strong participation and endorsement, the OASIS Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Technical Committee released its PKI Action Plan. The OASIS PKI Action Plan calls for clear and specific guidelines for using PKI in the most relevant application types (document signing, secure email, and electronic commerce); interoperability testing; improved educational materials; best practices and other measures to reduce cost; and outreach to software application vendors to increase PKI implementation. Sun is proud to support expansion of PKI, an important security technology used in many widely deployed standards (such as SSL and IPSEC) to secure network connections.
• Liberty Alliance: Sun strongly endorses the Liberty Alliance announcement of its mobile business guidelines, the first set of vertically oriented business guidelines, outlining near-term market opportunities and business requirements for federated identity deployments in the mobile space. Federated identity, which securely links and manages identity information among different systems, has particular application to the mobile industry.

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