Solaris Trusted Extensions

This security enhancement is new in the Solaris Express 7/06 release.

Starting with this release, the Solaris Trusted Extensions software provides multilevel security for the Solaris OS, including mandatory access control for the following:

• Files

• File systems

• Processes

• Removable devices

• Networking

• Desktop environments

• Printing

The Solaris Trusted Extensions software also provides tools for the following actions:

• Defining policies

• Setting up sensitivity labels

• Performing trusted system management

The Solaris Trusted Extensions feature enables you to define your data access policies to control information in a flexible but highly secure manner. Solaris Trusted Extensions can be used as a configuration option for the Solaris OS.

For more information about Solaris Trusted Extensions, see the README and html files in the ExtraValue/Cobundled/tx directory.