Red Hat Enterprise Linux gets ALC_FLR.3 certification

Red Hat Enterprise Linux gets ALC_FLR.3 certification

Dan Frye, vice president of open systems with IBM has announced that they have managed to get EAL4 Augmented with ALC_FLR.3 certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This puts Red Hat Linux on the same level as the Sun Microsystems’ Solaris operating system. IBM said that this is the highest level of security function that anybody has.

Market analysts believe that this achievement would make the Red Hat Linux software more appealing to the US government organizations.

Frye added: We have delivered LSPP [Labeled Security Protection Profile] functionality in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and we have certified that at the EAL4 level of assurance.”

This certification was approved by the Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme for IT Security program.

With this Red Hat Linux has been certified EAL4 Augmented with ALC_FLR.3 on IBM’s mainframe, System x, System p5, and eServer systems.

Incidentally, Linux had already been certified at the EAL4 level but this is the first time that a Linux OS has received the LSPP certification.

Red Hat added: “Historically, OS vendors have required you buy a separate branched OS to get something that is LSPP and RBAC certified. This is something completely unique for commercial operating systems because the support for multilevel security is native to the OS.”