Breaking News -
Security:
Oracle And Red Hat To Submit Red Hat Linux
Advanced Server
Linux drives security evaluation for public
and private sector customers
worldwide.
Oracle Corp, one of the
world's largests enterprise software company, and Red
Hat, Inc, one of the
world's premier open source Linux provider, announced
their intent to submit
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server for a Common Criteria
(ISO 15408) evaluation at
Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 2.
Submitting the evaluation is
expected to enable security-conscious
customers in both the public and private
sector to procure an evaluated
Linux operating system upon which they can run
enterprise applications. In
the future, Oracle and Red Hat intend to work
toward achieving further
security evaluations of the Linux operating
system.
This complements a related announcement to be issued by Oracle
outlining
the companies' intention to submit Oracle9i Database Release 2 on
Linux
operating system for a formal security evaluation at EAL4.
"Oracle is the leader in information assurance and we further strengthen
our leadership role by submitting Red Hat Linux Advanced Server for a
formal
evaluation," said Mary Ann Davidson, chief security officer at
Oracle
Corporation.
"Increasingly Oracle's security-conscious customers are
interested in
deploying Linux. By extending our security commitment to include
Unbreakable
Linux, we are helping meet our customers' demands for a secure
operating
environment."
"There exists an urgent need for global
standards to measure security
capability and software assurance for secure IT
infrastructures," said Paul
Cormier, executive vice president of Engineering
at Red Hat. "Red Hat is
committed to providing our customers with an evaluated
Linux platform to
help them better analyze and deploy Linux and open source
technologies. Our
partnership with Oracle to enable Red Hat Linux Advanced
Server security
evaluation will benefit the entire open source Linux
community."
Secure Linux For All
By submitting Red Hat Linux
Advanced Server for the Common Criteria
evaluation at EAL2, Oracle and Red Hat
can help provide customers who
demand high levels of security with a secure
operating system alternative.
Security-aware enterprises and government
agencies are expected to be able
to take advantage of the benefits that
leading Linux providers such as Red
Hat offer. Further, systems integrators
and independent software vendors,
and independent hardware vendors can benefit
from the evaluation by being
able to provide a competitive offering on the
Linux platform to potential
customers who require evaluated products.
"The Defense Department is committed to information assurance and welcomes
the addition of evaluated products," said Robert Gorrie, deputy director of
Defense-Wide Information Assurance Program for the Secretary of Defense.
"Oracle and Red Hat working together to obtain a security evaluation for
the
Linux operating system creates additional product options for the
Department."
The security evaluation materials are expected to be made
available to the
larger open-source Linux community. This is in compliance
with the U.S.
government's security policy directive, NSTISSP (National
Security
Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Policy) number
11, in
effect since July 1, 2002, that requires independent security
evaluations
for products used in national security systems.
About
Oracle
Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company.
http://www.oracle.com
About
Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's premier open source and Linux
provider. Red Hat is
headquartered in Raleigh, N.C. and has offices
worldwide.
http://www.redhat.com
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