In case you missed it, me and some other folk in the Sun security community are trying something a little bit different. Security has always been a problematic topic for a corporation to discuss, except in the narrow sense of products that do some small security thing.

You know what I mean – virus scanning, crypto acceleration, software containment, hardening tools, stuff like that.

We really needed – and now we have – a forum to talk about the “soft stuff”, too. Permissions. Tips. Tricks. Little features which are not sexy enough to make the masthead of a glossy brochure.

If you are interested in Sun, or Security, keep an eye on the Sun Security Community Blog over the next few weeks; changes are afoot, not least to try and make it look nicer.

Plus if you want to give it a plug, that would be cool, too. Thanks! 🙂

blogs.sun.com/security/

One of the biggest challenges that Sun’s security community – all of the security community, the kernel folk, the applications folk, the Java evangelists, the hardware geeks, the integrators, the cryppies, the researchers, the legal beagles, the politicians, and the just plain interested – one of if not the greatest challenge is “how can we talk with the customer whilst using a single voice?”

It’s easy for product-focused groups; when you create a security widget, hoodjamaflip or doohickey there usually comes a product marketeer who expounds relentlessly about your nifty thing at every opportunity, so that interest catches light and sets aflame many imaginations – and product sales follow.

Or, at least, that’s how it’s supposed to work.

Regarding security, things can be a little different.

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[Here] we hope to provide a point of consolidation, where people can find postings and feeds pertinent to their preferred topics – Security Alerts, Tips, New Products, Announcements of “Pertinent Stuff” internal and external to Sun – where you can find personally written content with a high signal-to-noise ratio, and where you can have conversations through comments, cross-linking, providing the immediacy which is a cornerstone of the modern web.

For the Sun employee: if you want to post something, or if you’d like to see a pointer to something you’ve blogged be added, then drop us a line via e-mail. We’ll be in touch. Promise. In the meantime get a blog on blogs.sun.com, if you’ve not got one already.

For the non-Sun reader: Sun Alerts will continue to be posted here by the Sun Security Co-ordination Team; so there will be no change there; but if you haven’t already, please bookmark this site or add it to your feeds. Articles, pointers to other articles, and suggestions for postings are welcome. Just add a comment.