International Security Certification Places Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Among Industry's Most Certified Operating Systems
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, including
the KVM hypervisor, has been awarded the Common Criteria Certification
at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4+ — the highest level of assurance
for an unmodified commercial operating system — for the Operating System
Protection Profile (OSPP) including extended modules for Advanced
Management, Advanced Audit, Labeled Security, and Virtualization for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on Dell, HP, IBM and SGI hardware.
The Common Criteria is an internationally recognized set of standards
used by the federal government and other organizations to assess the
security and assurance of technology products. In the Common Criteria
scheme, EAL represents the depth and rigor of the evaluation, giving
consumers the confidence that products specified at a specific level
meet the package of security assurance requirements associated with that
level.
This certification provides government agencies, financial institutions,
and customers in other security-sensitive environments the assurance
that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 meets government security standards. Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6 features Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux), a
joint project developed with the National Security Agency (NSA). This
Common Criteria certification provides assurance that using Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6 with the KVM hypervisor allows providers to host many
tenants on the same machine while keeping their virtual guests separated
from each other using Mandatory Access Control technology developed by
the NSA.
Red Hat worked extensively with Dell, HP, IBM and SGI to certify Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6 on a broad spectrum of hardware. As part of this
certification effort, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 has achieved Common
Criteria Certification on the following hardware:
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 with virtualization support:
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Dell based on x86 64bit Intel:
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Dell PowerEdge R720, R620, R820, R520, R320, R420
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Dell PowerEdge T620, T420, T320
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Dell PowerEdge M620, M520, M420, M820
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HP based on x86 64bit Intel Xeon processors:
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HP ProLiant ML 100 and 300 series G6 product line
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HP ProLiant DL 100 series G6, 300 series G6 and G7, 500 series
G7, 900 series G7 product line
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HP ProLiant BL 200 series G6 and G7, 400 series G6 and G7, 600
series G5, 600 series G7 product line
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HP ProLiant SL 100 series G6 product line
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HP based on AMD64 processors:
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HP ProLiant DL 100 series G7, 500 series G7, 700 series G6
product line
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HP ProLiant BL 600 series G6 product line
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HP ProLiant SL 100 series G7 product line
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IBM based on x86 64bit Intel Xeon processors:
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IBM System x: x3400 M2, x3400 M3, x3500 M2, x3500 M3, x3550
M2, x3550 M3, x3620 M3, x3630 M3, x3650 M2, x3650 M3
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IBM BladeCenter: HS22 and HS22V
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IBM iDataPlex: dx360 M2, dx360 M3
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IBM X5 systems: x3850 X5, x3950 X5, x3690 X5
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SGI based on x86 64bit Intel Xeon processors:
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SGI® UV™ 1000, SGI® UV™ 100
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 without virtualization support:
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All hardware listed above under "Red Hat Enterprise Linux with
virtualization support"
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IBM Power Systems based on POWER7 processors
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IBM System z based on z/Architecture processors
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 was certified by BSI, Germany's Federal
Office for Information Security. To facilitate this certification, Red
Hat worked with atsec information security, a U.S. government and BSI
accredited laboratory, which tested and validated the security,
performance and reliability of the solution against the Common Criteria
Standard for Information Security Evaluation (ISO/IEC 15408) at EAL4+,
the highest level of assurance for an unmodified commercial operating
system, for the Operating System Protection Profile (OSPP) including
extended modules for Advanced Management, Advanced Audit, Labeled
Security, and Virtualization for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on Dell, HP,
IBM and SGI hardware.
Supporting Quotations:
Paul Smith, vice president and general manager, Public Sector
operations, Red Hat
"This marks our 15th completed Common Criteria certification
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, earning Red Hat a place at the top of the
list of the industry's most certified operating systems. We've been
deeply committed to security certifications so that customers can
confidently turn to Red Hat for the expertise to deploy open source
solutions at maximum security levels, and our work with Dell, HP, IBM
and SGI on this certification reinforces that government customers can
run Red Hat Enterprise Linux with confidence on a wide variety of
hardware from many of the industry's top providers."
Tim Mattox, Vice President Enterprise Product Marketing, Dell
"Dell is committed to helping its government customers operate more
efficiently and effectively, especially in today's difficult budget
environment. With Red Hat earning common criteria security
certification, we can now offer a larger subset of our government
customers a powerful tool in Dell's 12th Generation of
PowerEdge Servers to help them accomplish their mission while also
helping them to comply with data center consolidation initiatives now in
place as well as increasing budget demands. With these powerful
solutions, Dell's government customers can now meet the stringent
security requirements needed to help organizations protect their
security sensitive environments while still delivering business results."
Tom Hempfield, vice president, Federal Business Organization, HP
"To accomplish their missions, federal agencies rely on computer systems
that deliver a high level of security and reliability. This
certification of the entire HP ProLiant product line demonstrates HP's
commitment to helping Red Hat Enterprise Linux meet the risk management
needs of their agency clients."
Jim Brinker, vice president, SGI Federal
"SGI UV is the largest server certified with Common Criteria
certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the KVM hypervisor. The
server certification supports up to 1280 cores and 8 TB of memory. SGI
UV is installed in many government programs and SGI is pleased to offer,
with Red Hat's support, a secure platform for our federal customers."
Ken Hake, Common Criteria laboratory manager, atsec U.S.
"We are proud that Red Hat chose atsec as the laboratory for the Common
Criteria evaluation, as this project continues our successful business
relationship with Red Hat. Red Hat's completion of this Common Criteria
project should result in more peace of mind for customers who run Red
Hat Enterprise Linux in business critical environments."
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