Red Hat Linux gets top government security rating

+ - Red Hat Linux gets top government security rating

Submitted by

zakeria

on Monday June 18, 2007 @12:05AM

zakeria writes "Red Hat Linux has received a new level of security certification that should make the software more appealing to some government agencies. Earlier this month IBM was able to achieve EAL4 Augmented with ALC_FLR.3 certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, putting it on a par with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Trusted Solaris operating system, said Dan Frye, vice president of open systems with IBM."