Red Hat Linux to gain security stamp of approval, Dec 01, 2003

Red Hat is pushing to have its commercial Enterprise Linux software certified under the Common Criteria (CC) Scheme worldwide, and has anticipated the OS solution will gain accreditation by the end of this year.

The CC Scheme is designed to test and provide independent, impartial assessments of IT products. CC security evaluations are based on an analysis and test of the IT product to judge its conformance to specified IT security requirements nominated by participants in the CC scheme.

It isn't often that LinuxWorld has the chance to bring you a verbatim report from the China People's Daily, but it's the exception that proves the rule. So here, with out compliments, is a story from this week's English-language edition of the only daily newspaper in the world whose Web site has permanent links to the Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping.

The story, from November 26, 2003, reads as follows:

Complicating matters for Microsoft is the rise of Linux, and a growing belief that increased security means less reliance on Microsoft products.

Reports this fall from the U.S. Computer and Communications Industry Association and Gartner Group, a respected U.S. technology research firm, concluded that having a "monoculture" of computer networks based on Microsoft software leaves corporations and governments vulnerable to a single point of attack and failure.

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