Oracle Solaris 11.4 has recently been certified against the Common Criteria Operating Systems Protection Profile (v4.2.1) with the SSH extension package. Many...
Oracle Solaris 11.4 has recently been certified against the Common Criteria Operating Systems Protection Profile (v4.2.1) with the SSH extension package. Many thanks to the hard work of the Oracle SecEval team and our external evaluators for making this one of the smoothest evaluations we have done. Particularly in light of the current global pandemic, some things had to be done differently but they found a way to make it work. This is the latest security validation in a...
Oracle Solaris 11.4 has recently been certified against the Common Criteria Operating Systems Protection Profile (v4.2.1) with the SSH extension package. Many thanks to the hard work of the Oracle...
As you've seen in previous blogs we've been correcting the accidental deletion of older blogs that hold still useful knowledge. After bringing back blogs by...
As you've seen in previous blogs we've been correcting the accidental deletion of older blogs that hold still useful knowledge. After bringing back blogs by James McPherson and Darryl Gove, we're now bringing back a set of blogs by one of our long time security engineers Glenn Faden. These posts he wrote under the handle Trusted Blogger cover various aspects of Oracle Solaris in the security space and how to use and configure its often unique features. Some of the older...
As you've seen in previous blogs we've been correcting the accidental deletion of older blogs that hold still useful knowledge. After bringing back blogs by James McPherson and Darryl Gove, we're now...
Oracle Servers Forum 2020 Coming Soon Writing another short blog to give a heads-up on an upcoming online event on Oracle Solaris and Systems. The Oracle...
Oracle Servers Forum 2020 Coming Soon Writing another short blog to give a heads-up on an upcoming online event on Oracle Solaris and Systems. The Oracle Servers Forum 2020 will be held on September 29, starting at 9 AM PT, and registration is available here. We’ll talk about Oracle Solaris, SPARC, and x86 compute platforms for on-prem deployments, and how they are consistent, secure, and innovative. Customers are invited to directly engage with Oracle engineers to learn...
Oracle Servers Forum 2020 Coming Soon Writing another short blog to give a heads-up on an upcoming online event on Oracle Solaris and Systems. The Oracle Servers Forum 2020 will be held on September...
The Oracle Solaris 11 OS is the world’s best Enterprise Operating System, and thousands of users trust and depend on it for their business platforms. Oracle...
The Oracle Solaris 11 OS is the world’s best Enterprise Operating System, and thousands of users trust and depend on it for their business platforms. Oracle Solaris 11 gives you consistent compatibility, is simple to use, and is designed to always be secure. The latest release, Oracle Solaris 11.4, introduced a bulk of new features, including: Simplified analysis with new observability tools Additional features for compliance monitoring, reporting and security REST-based...
The Oracle Solaris 11 OS is the world’s best Enterprise Operating System, and thousands of users trust and depend on it for their business platforms. Oracle Solaris 11 gives you...
Sometimes a developer would want to test his/her executable (which might contain some bug fix or could be a debug binary). And if this binary needs to be...
Sometimes a developer would want to test his/her executable (which might contain some bug fix or could be a debug binary). And if this binary needs to be executed during Operating System Install process, then this binary will have to be inserted into the install media (the iso image). The iso media is having its own filesystem layout and we cannot add anything to it directly. The user will have to extract the contents of the iso, edit it and then again convert it back to iso...
Sometimes a developer would want to test his/her executable (which might contain some bug fix or could be a debug binary). And if this binary needs to be executed during Operating System...
Guest Author: Vladimír Kotal Supported OpenSSL Versions in Oracle Solaris Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 21 delivers both the OpenSSL 1.0.2...
Guest Author: Vladimír Kotal Supported OpenSSL Versions in Oracle Solaris Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 21 delivers both the OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.1.1 versions. These versions are not binary compatible, so software that is compiled with OpenSSL headers and linked with OpenSSL libraries from one version cannot run with the OpenSSL libraries from the other version. The goal of this article is to clear potential confusion with regards to FIPS 140-2...
Guest Author: Vladimír Kotal Supported OpenSSL Versions in Oracle Solaris Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 21 delivers both the OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.1.1 versions....
Guest Author: Martin Rehak Oracle Solaris 11.4-SRU 21 and newer delivers a major update of the printing software: cups-2.3.1 cups-filters-1.25.11...
Guest Author: Martin Rehak Oracle Solaris 11.4-SRU 21 and newer delivers a major update of the printing software: cups-2.3.1 cups-filters-1.25.11 ghostscript-9.27 hplip-3.19.5 gutenprint-5.2.13 Older Oracle Solaris versions were based on outdated CUPS-1.4.5 software. What's new? The most important changes: TLS/SSL support; policy settings in client.conf IPP Everywhere conformance including TLS/SSL support PDF filters is now a separate project and package PDF has changed the...
Guest Author: Martin Rehak Oracle Solaris 11.4-SRU 21 and newer delivers a major update of the printing software: cups-2.3.1 cups-filters-1.25.11 ghostscript-9.27 hplip-3.19.5 gutenprint-5.2.13 Older...
IPSec is a secure protocol used to encrypt data packets between systems that are configured with IPSec. In this article, we shall see how we can configure and...
IPSec is a secure protocol used to encrypt data packets between systems that are configured with IPSec. In this article, we shall see how we can configure and enable IPSec between two Solaris servers The Solaris version used in this article is - Solaris 11.4 Also, this article assumes all the below configuration are done with root privileges. Steps to Configure IPsec using IKE are ad follows: Setting up IKE( Internet Key Exchange) with Pre-shared keys Configuring IPSec...
IPSec is a secure protocol used to encrypt data packets between systems that are configured with IPSec. In this article, we shall see how we can configure and enable IPSec between two Solaris servers...
I'm writing a short blog to give you a heads up that we'll be doing another Virtual Seminar on Oracle Solaris and SPARC next week on April 21st. In this seminar...
I'm writing a short blog to give you a heads up that we'll be doing another Virtual Seminar on Oracle Solaris and SPARC next week on April 21st. In this seminar Renato, Martin and myself will be giving you an update on where we are with Oracle Solaris and SPARC Systems, plus we'll be giving a deeper dive and demo's on some of the new features and how to use them. We'll also have a team of folks from Oracle Solaris Engineering ready to answer questions during the seminar, so...
I'm writing a short blog to give you a heads up that we'll be doing another Virtual Seminar on Oracle Solaris and SPARC next week on April 21st. In this seminar Renato, Martin and myself will...