Vendors are pursuing a variety of security initiatives intended to rein in the worst effects of problems such as worm attacks, which sometimes scan at ferocious speeds for vulnerable machines. Sun recently gave a sneak peek into security features that will go into the next version of Solaris, promising customers a more fault-tolerant system and greater resistance to intrusions when Solaris 10.0 comes out by year-end. Solaris 10.0 will use a fault-isolation technology called "nl grid containers" intended to help keep multiple applications running smoothly says Ravi Iyer, Sun's group manager for software systems security Each container will work like a mini-operating system for an application process, so that if the application's mini-operating system fails, the entire operating system doesn't go down.
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