Achievement exemplifies Red Hat's ongoing dedication to providing top
solutions for security-conscious industries
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced Red
Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2 has been awarded the
Common Criteria Certification at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4+ -
the highest level of assurance for a commercial middleware platform.
This certification provides government agencies, financial institutions,
and customers in other security-sensitive environments the assurance
that Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2 meets government
security standards.
Achieving the Common Criteria Certification for JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform 6.2 supports Red Hat's reputation as an industry
leader in technology and showcases the company's ongoing commitment to
security. In 2012, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.1.0 and 5.1.1
also achieved Common Criteria certification at the EAL4+ assurance level.
The Common Criteria is an internationally recognized set of standards
used by the federal government and organizations to assess the security
and assurance of technology products. EAL categorizes the depth and
rigor of the evaluation, and EAL4+ assures consumers that the software
has been methodically designed, tested, and reviewed to meet the
evaluation criteria.
As with past Common Criteria certifications, Red Hat worked with atsec
information security, a government accredited laboratory in the United
States and Germany. atsec 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+.
Supporting Quotes
Paul Smith, vice president and general manager, Public Sector, Red Hat
"We're exceptionally proud that Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform has, once again, been granted Common Criteria Certification.
It's an important distinction that tells our customers that when they
use Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform they're using a Java
EE server that's highly secure. In short, they have the confidence that
comes from knowing that their sensitive applications, services and data
is on a platform that meets these rigorous security standards. Common
Criteria accreditation is a high water mark for security standards. It
is a non trivial effort in terms of labor and economic investment, and
is part of the value of the Red Hat subscription that differentiates
enterprise-class open source from the projects from which they are
derived."
Kenneth Hake, Common Criteria laboratory manager, atsec U.S.
"We are proud to continue to be Red Hat's laboratory of choice for
evaluating its products for Common Criteria Certification. The
completion of this certification for JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform 6.2 means that the product meets rigorous security standards at
the EAL 4+. The evaluation included the security functionality of Access
Control, Role Based Access Control for management interfaces, Audit,
Clustering, Identification and Authentication, and Transaction Rollback
within the scope."
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