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December 16, 2005

Microsoft Products Get Security Certified

by @ 12:39 pm. Filed under Exchange/Outlook, Windows 2003, Windows XP

Common Criteria, which is a set of well-known standards of assurance for sharing classified information among government agencies, has blessed Microsoft with their Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4+ for several of Microsoft products. Common Criteria is an international standard and achieving EAL levels (which range from the low of 1 to a high of 7) is important for organizations interested in winning federal contracts.

In the past the following Microsoft products received EAL 4+ certification.

1. Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server
2. Windows 2000 Professional
3. Exchange Server 2003
4. Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004

The following products received the EAL 4+ rating just recently.

1. Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit) with Service Pack 1.
2. Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit and 64-bit versions) with Service Pack 1.
3. Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit and 64-bit versions) with Service Pack 1.
4. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Certificate Server, Certificate Issuing and Management Components (CIMC) (Security Level 3 Protection Profile, Version 1.0).
5. Microsoft Windows XP, Professional with Service Pack 2.
6. Microsoft Windows XP, Embedded with Service Pack 2.

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