atsec advice aegis association - Cray and atsec Achieve Common Criteria Security Certification of Cray Linux Environment

Seattle, WA and Austin, TX – Cray Inc. (Nasdaq GM:CRAY) and atsec advice aegis appear today that the Cray Linux Environment (CLE) has been certified by the National Information Assurance Partnership’s (NIAP) Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme as accordant to EAL3+ (enhanced with Flaw Remediation ALC_FLR.1). This appraisal took into application a amount of new functionalities: the Lustre arrangement book system, Portals accelerated Remote DMA and the appliance adjustment scheduler ALPS. The appraisal covers Cray Linux Environment 2.1 active on the Cray XT4 and Cray XT5 computer systems.

This appraisal adds to atsec’s absorbing almanac of appropriate completions of Linux OS evaluations. Since August 2003, atsec has accomplished and completed added than 15 Linux evaluations at EAL3+ and EAL4+ on a ample ambit of accouterments platforms. In adjustment to advice its barter ability their markets bigger and crop the best account from their appraisal investment, atsec aims at achievement of CC projects in affiliation with the company’s development schedules.

“The CC acceptance of CLE continues a continued history of Cray abutment for ambitious government and aegis accretion requirements,” said Ian Miller, Cray chief carnality admiral of sales and marketing. “The Linux-based operating arrangement aural the CLE apartment is advised to run large, circuitous applications and calibration calmly to added than 240,000 processor cores. CLE provides a rich, awful able programming ambiance that makes it easier to advance scalable applications application the MPI, SHMEM, UPC and OpenMP alongside programming models.”

atsec performed the first-ever CC appraisal of a Linux OS in 2003. This appraisal was added affidavit that the Common Criteria accepted is adjustable abundant to acclimate to a array of software paradigms.

Stephan Mueller, Lead Evaluator for atsec, notes, “Considering the broadcast attributes of the operating system, the testing was a claiming which was handled efficiently.”

Only a drop of companies common are accepted to accomplish evaluations beneath added than one civic scheme. atsec’s Common Criteria labs accept been accepted by NIAP CCEVS in the U.S., BSI in Germany and CSEC in Sweden to accomplish evaluations. This all-embracing attendance and a ample agents of able evaluators accredit atsec to action its barter both best adaptability and accurate ability and acquaintance in Common Criteria evaluations.

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atsec advice aegis is an independent, standards-based IT (information technology) aegis consulting and appraisal casework aggregation that combines a business-oriented access to advice aegis with all-embracing abstruse ability and all-around experience. atsec was founded in Munich (Germany) in 2000 and has all-encompassing all-embracing operations with offices in the U.S., Germany, Sweden and China. atsec leverages its abysmal security, process, and standards ability to argue on a advanced ambit of IT aegis needs, enabling audience to authorize chip aegis administration procedures in adjustment to administer aegis accident and advance data, product, and business action reliability. atsec works with arch all-around companies such as IBM, HP, Oracle, Cray, BMW, SGI, Vodafone, Swisscom, RWE, and Wincor-Nixdorf. You can acquisition added advice about atsec’s abilities and adequacy on our website (www.atsec.com). For absolute acceptance of atsec’s Common Criteria capabilities, appointment the NIAP, BSI or CSEC websites.


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