December 01, 2003

RHEL3 seeks Common Criteria Standard

Computerworld reports that RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 is currently seeking EAL2 of the Common Criteria Standard (CCS). If approved, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 would sit alongside versions of Sun Solaris, HP-UX and IBM’s AIX operating system.

And they are getting support from Oracle on this. Once RHEL is certified, the Oracle9i database will comply with the US government's equivalent security policy directive, which requires independent security evaluations for products used in national security systems.

Good luck Redhat. And bravo on making the effort to gain certification. EAL2 is pretty low on the totem pole, but its a great first step!

Posted by SilverStr at December 1, 2003 08:22 AM | TrackBack