Sun Secure Global Desktop Software provides secure access to centralized Windows, UNIX, Mainframe and Midrange applications from a wide range of popular client devices, including Microsoft Windows PCs, Solaris OS Workstations, thin clients and mobile devices.

Sun Secure Global Desktop Software 4.41 is available for download with such features as new new command for securing an SGD server; pull-down header for kiosk mode applications: service tag support; active directory authentication log filter; and active directory SSL security without client certificates.

Sun staff writer Marina Sum interviewed Jamie Nelson, director of engineering for access and federation management at Sun, to learn his views on security as it pertains to application development on the web. This interview is part 1 of six, each with a different individual and all part of the From the Trenches at Sun Identity series.

Sun has posted a new 6-page data sheet that describes the Sun Java System Identity Management software, including role manager.

One of the big challenges facing IT managers is how to provide access to their employees, their customers and partners in a secure fashion. Sun’s™ identity management portfolio includes everything an organization needs to manage, protect, store, verify, and share identity information throughout the enterprise and across extranets.