Red Hat Adds Common Criteria Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Summary
For Common Criteria, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 was certified by the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), with testing and validation completed by Acumen Security, a U.S. government-accredited laboratory. Part of this collaboration includes the creation and validation of more secure configurations of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform for sensitive computing environments. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) recently published a Secure Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, which offers a configuration roadmap to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 with an approved security baseline while still helping to drive innovation across an organization. Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager, Public Sector, North America, Red Hat “From bare metal servers to expansive hybrid cloud deployments, the operating system is the foundation for modern IT, making platform security even more important when it comes to sensitive environments. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
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