atsec advice aegis association - atsec advice aegis evaluates IBM PR/SM z10 EC/BC at Common Criteria Certification at EAL 5

AUSTIN, Texas – May 5, 2009 – atsec advice aegis is admiring to advertise achievement of the Common Criteria appraisal of IBM Processor Resource/System Manager (PR/SM) LPAR for IBM System z10 Business Class (z10 BC) and z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC) at appraisal affirmation akin (EAL) 5. IBM PR/SM was certified by Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). IBM sponsored the appraisal effort.

PR/SM is a cornerstone of IBM's mainframe security. PR/SM's analytic administration ability enables the assets of a individual concrete zSeries apparatus to be disconnected and aggregate by audible analytic machines, anniversary able of active z/VM, z/OS or Linux. All of these operating systems accept been evaluated beneath the Common Criteria by atsec at altered appraisal affirmation levels. The arrangement agent can configure the audible analytic machines to ensure complete abreast from one another; in such configuration, analytic machines cannot accretion ability about any added analytic machine's accessible I/O assets or performed operations. This affirmation enables PR/SM to accommodated acrimonious requirements for acquaintance of candy advice including requirements allowable by the U.S. federal government and the cyberbanking industry. The evaluated adaptation of PR/SM aswell allows for ambience up allied analytic partitions (i.e., Parallel Sysplex) that can advisedly barter information, while co-existing with added partitions that crave complete isolation.

Michael Robrecht, Lead Evaluator for atsec, remembers: "It has been added than a decade back the antecedent appraisal of IBM PR/SM adjoin ITSEC at akin E4. At that time, no one could accept advancing that the artefact would be evaluated nine added times, acclamation changes in appraisal belief and accoutrement the evolving accouterments basal the product. In addition, with anniversary evaluation, added appearance accept been added and adjourned for their aegis impact. I am alone actual blessed to accept alternate in the ten acknowledged PR/SM evaluations to date, and I attending advanced to the claiming of evaluating PR/SM adjoin the requirements of Common Criteria 3.1 in the future."

The actual acknowledged affiliation of atsec as appraisal lab, IBM as sponsor, and BSI as acceptance anatomy in contempo PR/SM certifications led to development of the EAL5 appraisal alignment provided by BSI (AIS34), which forms a complete base for such high-assurance evaluations. The artefact ability acquired by atsec and BSI during their antecedent analysis of the artefact was agitated advanced to after evaluations. The about connected action of re-evaluation of PR/SM ensures that barter are provided with appropriate affirmation of the PR/SM aegis features.

EAL5 acceptance includes acceptance by affiliate countries of the Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement (CCRA) at the EAL4 level.

The PR/SM for IBM z10 EC and z10 BC appraisal is the latest in a alternation of acknowledged projects by atsec to accredit circuitous systems at aggressive affirmation levels. From aboriginal in its history as a Common Criteria appraisal lab, atsec has led the way in operating arrangement evaluations beneath both the German BSI and U.S. CCEVS Schemes. In accession to the PR/SM evaluations, atsec's almanac of evaluations back 2002 includes IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3, and 6; a absolute of 12 Linux versions on assorted belvedere architectures; four IBM z/OS versions, as able-bodied as the zSeries-based z/VM 5.1 and 5.3.

The IBM PR/SM LPAR for z10 EC and z10 BC affidavit can be begin here:
www.atsec.com/downloads/pdf/certificates/z10-BC-z10-EC-EA...

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