Red Hat Adds Common Criteria Security Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
December 13 2017 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Certification enables the world’s leading
enterprise Linux platform to support additional critical and
sensitive workloads
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
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R530, R630, R730,
R730xd, R920, and R930
- Dell EMC PowerEdge T430 and T630
- Dell EMC PowerEdge M630 and M830
- Dell EMC PowerEdge FC430, FC630 and
FC830
- Dell EMC PowerEdge C6320
- Dell Precision Rack 7910
Workstation
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
- HPE Servers based on x86 64-bit Intel
Xeon processors:
- HPE ProLiant ML G7, Gen8, Gen9
Servers
- HPE ProLiant DL G7, Gen8, Gen9
Servers
- HPE ProLiant BL G7, Gen8, Gen9
Servers
- HPE ProLiant SL G7, Gen8, Gen9
Servers
- HPE Servers based on AMD64 processors:
- HPE ProLiant ML G7, Gen8 Servers
- HPE ProLiant DL G7, Gen8 Servers
IBM
- IBM System p based on Power8 processors
providing execution environments with PowerVM:
- Big Endian with PowerVM: Tuleta BE
model number - Power 835 model 8286-41A
- Little Endian with Red Hat
Virtualization for Power 3.6: Power 835 model 8284-22A
- IBM System z based on z/Architecture
processors:
- zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12)
- zEnterprise BC12 (zBC12)
- zEnterprise 196 (z196)
- 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.”
Additional Resources
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Linux
- Learn more about government standards
and Red Hat’s approach to certification and accreditation
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