{"id":1331,"date":"2004-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/09\/24\/linux-firms-join-forces-on-security\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:39:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:39:11","slug":"linux-firms-join-forces-on-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/09\/24\/linux-firms-join-forces-on-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux firms join forces on security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A consortium including Mandrakesoft, the Paris-based Linux seller that recently exited bankruptcy protection, has won a three-year contract worth 7m euros to improve Linux security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandrakesoft, joined by Bertin Technologies, Surlog, Jaluna and Oppida, will boost Linux so it meets the Evaluation Assurance Level 5 (EAL5) of an internationally used security certification called Common Criteria, the companies said onThursday.  The certification is particularly important among military and government customers; the French Ministry of Defence is funding the project.<\/p>\n<p>The EAL5 certification level is significantly higher than what current versions of Linux have attained.  Red Hat reached EAL2 in April and EAL3+ in August, while Novell&#8217;s SuSE Linux reached EAL3+ in January.  Those companies, which dominate the commercial market for the open-source operating system, are working on higher certifications in conjunction with IBM and Oracle.<\/p>\n<p>Mandrakesoft will release the fruits of the work as open-source software when the project is done, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Windows, Sun Microsystems&#8217; Solaris, Hewlett-Packard&#8217;s HP-UX and IBM&#8217;s AIX all have EAL4 certification.<\/p>\n<p>EAL5 certification is rarer; one company to attain it is IBM, with the technology that lets its z900 and z990 mainframes be divided into independent, isolated partitions.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/news.zdnet.co.uk\/0,39020330,39167716,00.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3818,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/3818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}