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Guides

The Open Group Guides are supporting documents. They provide advice and best practice on using and/or adopting Open Group standards and other standards.
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  • This document describes the X/Open Distributed Security Framework (XDSF). It identifies information system security services required to meet the needs of distributed information systems and provides guidance on the specification and integration of these services.
  • Information security is increasingly vital for businesses of all sorts.
  • The Guide is intended as an introductory text to CDSA, which is a set of layered security services that provides the infrastructure for extensible and interoperable security solutions.
  • Secure Messaging Challenge 2001
  • This document describes the internationalization facilities provided by the Single UNIX Specification, Version 3...
  • This document explains why the concerns surrounding privacy of personal data in computers for business and private citizens are real.
  • To keep email as a viable communication option, we need to find ways to minimize the effects of spam...
  • This Technical Guide provides a pattern-based security design methodology and a system of security design patterns.
  • A Guide to the Single UNIX Specification Version 3, including what's new in Version 3 (Second Edition).
  • This Guide introduces the pattern-based security design methodology and approach to software architecture...