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Linux Rated Less Secure than
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From: Jamsheer
From WinInfo Daily Update
" When Microsoft announced last fall
that the International
Organization for
Standardization (ISO) had awarded Windows 2000 the
highest possible grade in the Common Criteria (CC)
security
certification, open-source
advocates downplayed the honor as
insignificant and unrelated to real-world security analysis.
This
week, however, ISO also awarded Linux
the CC security certification,
and as one
might expect, the open-source community greeted the
announcement with cheers. There's just one catch: Linux got a
lower
security rating than Win2K did last
year.
ISO granted Linux a "low
to moderate" security rating, whereas
Win2K
received a "moderate to high" security rating. According to
people close to the certification process, ISO
tested Linux for higher
security ratings but
the open-source solution achieved only the "low
to moderate" rating.
Further dampening the celebration is news that most Linux
installations didn't receive the certification.
Sponsored by a
$500,000 fee that IBM paid,
the certification applies only to SuSE
Linux
and then only when that product is installed on certain IBM
hardware. Still, the certification is an important
first step for
Linux, which is trying to
position itself as a viable alternative to
Windows in various situations. Microsoft has made
significant
security-related improvements to
Windows since the company launched
its
Trustworthy Computing initiative a year and a half ago.
"
Read this news from
http://www.secadministrator.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=39803
Regards,
Jam
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