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Red Hat gains security certification (News.com)

Red Hat gains security certification (News.com)

Posted Apr 30, 2004 8:11 UTC (Fri) by jmshh (guest, #8257)
In reply to: Red Hat gains security certification (News.com) by gavino
Parent article: Red Hat gains security certification (News.com)

EAL certification does not certify security to be at level X, but to be at least there. Also SuSE didn't start at EAL 3, but got EAL 2 first. The level reachable by some system is determined by the minimum of a) its realy security, b) the amount of money someone wants to put into certification, and c) how much customers want/need the certification.


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