Red Hat Adds Common Criteria Security Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Certification enables the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform
to support additional critical and sensitive workloads
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 7.1, the
world’s leading enterprise Linux platform, has achieved an additional
Common Criteria Certification. Enhancing the existing Evaluation
Assurance Level 4+ certification announced in October 2016, this
certification was under the General-Purpose Operating System Protection
Profile (OSPP) 3.9. Red Hat Enterprise Linux was the first operating
system to be Common Criteria-certified with Linux Container Framework
Support, underscoring Red Hat’s commitment to delivering hardened and
more secure IT innovations like Linux containers.
Common Criteria is an internationally recognized set of standards used
by governments and commercial organizations to assess the security and
assurance of technology products. OSPP 3.9 defines security requirements
for operating systems deployed in security-sensitive or critical
systems, such as national security, healthcare, public utilities, and
telecommunications.
The OSPP 3.9 certification adds to Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s security
profile.
Common Criteria certification attests the operating system and the
hardware platform underneath. The following hardware platforms were
successfully evaluated as part of this certification:
Dell EMC
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Dell EMC PowerEdge R530, R630, R730, R730xd, R920, and R930
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Dell EMC PowerEdge T430 and T630
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Dell EMC PowerEdge M630 and M830
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Dell EMC PowerEdge FC430, FC630 and FC830
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Dell EMC PowerEdge C6320
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Dell Precision Rack 7910 Workstation
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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HPE Servers based on x86 64-bit Intel Xeon processors:
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HPE ProLiant ML G7, Gen8, Gen9 Servers
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HPE ProLiant DL G7, Gen8, Gen9 Servers
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HPE ProLiant BL G7, Gen8, Gen9 Servers
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HPE ProLiant SL G7, Gen8, Gen9 Servers
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HPE Servers based on AMD64 processors:
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HPE ProLiant ML G7, Gen8 Servers
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HPE ProLiant DL G7, Gen8 Servers
IBM
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IBM System p based on Power8 processors providing execution
environments with PowerVM:
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Big Endian with PowerVM: Tuleta BE model number - Power 835 model
8286-41A
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Little Endian with Red Hat Virtualization for Power 3.6: Power 835
model 8284-22A
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IBM System z based on z/Architecture processors:
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zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12)
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zEnterprise BC12 (zBC12)
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zEnterprise 196 (z196)
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zEnterprise 114 (z114)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 was certified by BSI, Germany's Federal
Office for Information Security. To facilitate this certification, Red
Hat worked with atsec information security corporation, accredited in
Germany, Italy, Sweden and the U.S., which tested and validated the
security, performance, and reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
against OSPP 3.9.
Supporting Quote
Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager, Public Sector,
Red Hat
“Military, national security, and other
highly-sensitive data center environments require a significant
commitment to security and stringent compliance standards, a commitment
that Red Hat strives to meet with the world’s leading enterprise Linux
platform. The latest Common Criteria certification for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux enables us to better meet the needs of public and
private sector IT environments, from standard data center deployments to
implementations that can require higher levels of regulatory compliance
and operating system security.”
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