Red Hat pursuing Common Criteria for JBoss

Red Hat Expands Security Leadership by Seeking Common Criteria Certification
for JBoss and MetaMatrix Solutions
 
RALEIGH, NC ­ NOVEMBER 1, 2007 ­ Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading
provider of open source solutions, today announced that it is pursuing
Common Criteria certification for the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform,
reinforcing its commitment to information technology (IT) security for
public-sector customers. Additionally, Red Hat announced that the company
has initiated its pursuit of Common Criteria certification for MetaMatrix
Data Services Platform.
 
Created in response to increasing threats to network and computer security,
Common Criteria is an internationally approved set of security standards
used by governments and businesses worldwide. It is designed to bolster
end-user confidence by providing clear and reliable assurance that a
technology's integrity and security architecture have been thoroughly tested
and validated by an accredited, third-party source against the Common
Criteria (CC) Standard for Information Technology Security Evaluation
(ISO/IEC 15408).
 
Many security-conscious customers, including U.S. government agencies, use
Common Criteria certification as a determining factor in making IT
purchasing decisions. As the number of federal agencies mandating Common
Criteria certification for all technology purchases continues to increase,
Common Criteria is also gaining in importance around the globe, with
customers in healthcare, financial services and other industries benefiting
from the certification¹s assurance of security. Currently recognized and
adopted by 22 countries, Common Criteria certification allows government and
commercial organizations in these nations to purchase IT products with the
confidence that they are in compliance with widely accepted security
standards.
 
While JBoss and MetaMatrix solutions have already been successfully and
securely deployed in several U.S. government agencies, Red Hat has committed
significant resources to achieving Common Criteria certification to supply
government and commercial customers with solutions that meet the strict
standards of Common Criteria.
 
³Red Hat is acutely aware of the increased focus on IT security by
government organizations around the world,² said Paul Smith, Vice President
of Government Sales Operations at Red Hat. ³In addition to delivering open,
flexible and high-value enterprise middleware, Common Criteria certification
will enable our government and commercial customers to more readily adopt
and leverage the value of JBoss Enterprise Middleware and MetaMatrix.²
 
To date, Red Hat has earned Common Criteria certification or is presently
certifying solutions to various Evaluation Assurance Levels (EALs),
including:
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
o     HP: EAL 4+/CAPP/RBAC/LSPP
o     IBM: EAL 4+/CAPP/RBAC/LSPP
o     SGI: EAL 4+/CAPP/RBAC/LSPP
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
o     HP: EAL 3+/CAPP
o     IBM: EAL 4+/CAPP
o     SGI: EAL 3+/CAPP
o     UNISYS: EAL 3+/CAPP
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
*  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 AS
o     HP: EAL 3+/CAPP
o     IBM: EAL 3+/CAPP
o     UNISYS: EAL 3+/CAPP
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 WS
o     HP: EAL 3+/CAPP
o     IBM: EAL 3+/CAPP
 
For more information about Red Hat Common Criteria certifications, visit
http://www.redhat.com/solutions/government/commoncriteria/.
 
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is
headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 50 satellite offices spanning the
globe. CIOs have ranked Red Hat first for value in Enterprise Software for
three consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red
Hat provides high-quality, low-cost technology with its operating system
platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management
and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss
Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat also offers support, training and
consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more:
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