12.4. Securing the Deployment
The previous sections supplied background information about installation and the various ways to set system and security property values. This section provides concrete details on how to customize a deployment.
Typically, the default installation, such as the preinstalled JRE on Solaris or the JRE bundled with Netscape Navigator, does not customize the security properties but rather relies on the default settings provided by the J2SE platform vendor. The J2SE platform vendor will generally select security properties that suffice for general-purpose deployments. However, the default security properties may not be appropriate when the deployment environment requires more stringent controls.
In order to secure a deployment, ...
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