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HP: Certified Linux EAL 3 For Government Security Compliance

Oct 11, 2004 •

Anthony Pell

1 min read

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security advisory Red Hat SuSE Common Criteria government compliance HP EAL 3

Hewlett Packard Co has completed the certification of Linux on its servers and workstations with evaluation assurance level 3 of the Common Criteria security evaluation and is now looking to the next level. . . . 11 Oct 2004, 09:35 GMT -
The certification is an important security consideration for North American and European government agencies and departments and puts Palo Alto, California-based HP's hardware running Linux on the same level as rival IBM Corp.

HP has certified both Red Hat Inc Enterprise Linux and Novell Inc's SuSE Linux running on its ProLiant and Itanium systems at evaluation assurance level (EAL) 3 with Controlled Access Protection Profile (CAPP). IBM achieved the same with Red Hat in August and SuSE in January.

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