VMware ESX Server 2.5.0 and VirtualCenter 1.2.0 submitted to Common Criteria evaluation
Friday, February 17, 2006
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About Virtualization reports a very interesting scoop: second generation VMware ESX Server and VirtualCenter have been submitted to Common Criteria on 28th December 2004 for EAL 2 conformance certification unde the Operating Systems category.
I'm not able to find the related Protection Profile to further comment.
The certification has still to be granted at today.
Update: The EAL2 certification has been granted on March 27th, 2006.
You can check Security Target, Validation Report and Common Criteria Certificate here.
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VMware ESX Server 2.5 and Virtual Center 1.2 are submitted a while ago to:
Product Name: VMware ESX Server 2.5.0 & Virtual Center 1.2.0
Validation ID: VID10056
Technology Type: Operating System
Entered into Evaluation: 28 December 2004
Conformance Claim: EAL 2
Sponsor: VMware, Inc.
Point of Contact: Eric Betts
Phone: 650.475.5000
Email Address: sales@vmware.com
CC Testing Lab: InfoGard Laboratories, Inc.
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Anonymous, at Friday, February 17, 2006 1:42:00 PM
Actually, I'd think VMware ought to be able to achieve a higher level of assurance than that, if they wanted to.
Obviously the returns do diminish somewhat from increasingly high levels of assurance, so they may not want to go through the trouble / expense of higher certification levels.
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Mark Williamson, at Friday, February 17, 2006 6:31:00 PM
VMware completed Common Criteria at EAL2 for ESX 2.5 & VirtualCenter 1.2 on March 27 2006.
http://niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/st/ST_VID10056.html
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Anonymous, at Friday, May 19, 2006 8:29:00 PM
To the last anonymous: thank you for commenting and providing news.
Post has been updated accordingly.
Thanks!
By
alessandro, at Friday, May 19, 2006 8:41:00 PM
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