Red Hat Continues Public Sector Security Leadership

Red Hat Continues Public Sector Security Leadership

Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world’s leading provider of open source, today announced at the 2nd Annual Red Hat Government User Conference that it has partnered with Tresys Technology to enhance the services backing Security-Enhanced Linux-based Red Hat Enterprise Linux and has enhanced its security evaluation program, reinforcing its commitment to IT security for public sector customers. Red Hat’s commitment to security evaluations and innovation have long positioned the company as a leader in delivering secure, independently evaluated software to organizations in the public and private sectors. Recent Common Criteria evaluations bring the total number of independent security certifications to five for Red Hat Enterprise Linux across eight major hardware platforms.

Red Hat has partnered with Tresys Technology, a principal open source contributor to Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux), to deliver services for SELinux. Building upon their extensive open source technology and unmatched experience using SELinux to build secure systems, Tresys is developing a series of products that make it easier to use the power of SELinux. The partnership with Tresys will give Red Hat public sector customers the services they need to integrate SELinux and enhanced security functionality required to protect platforms at their core, using approaches such as Mandatory Access Control (MAC). The ability to be able to contain security breaches, significantly impacts the development of technology systems that meet public sector security needs.

“This is an important announcement which shows how both government and business can take security to the next level. As public sector agencies, along with the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community, strive to deliver new solutions quickly and with enhanced functionality, compromised security is not an option,” said Paul Smith, Red Hat’s vice president of government operations.

“SELinux is the best security technology available,” said Frank Mayer, President/CTO Tresys Technology. “This partnership with Red Hat enables us to expand the application of SELinux flexible mandatory access controls to greatly enhance the security of even more business applications. With this technology, government and business organizations can contain hackers, protect their assets and applications, and minimize damage by malicious users and programs.”

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