Oracle Solaris Verified Boot is an anti-malware and integrity feature that reduces the risk of introducing malicious or accidentally modified critical boot and kernel components. This feature checks the cryptographic signatures of the firmware, boot system, and kernel and kernel modules. The three policy options are ignore, warn and continue, and refuse to load the component.
This first release of verified boot applies to the SPARC T5, M5, and M6 platforms. For more information, see Using Verified Boot in Securing Systems and Attached Devices in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .
Verified Boot is one of a series of projects that enhance Oracle Solaris security. The blog post Solaris Verified Boot, describes details about Verified Boot as well as how the feature fits into an overall Oracle Solaris security architecture.