The Common Criteria Certification process is a long and arduous one. Common Criteria provides Evaluation Assurance Level that is the standard that U.S. Government and other large enterprises use as the basis of software qualification for production usage.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now certified at EAL 4+ for the Operating System Protection Profile (OSPP). It’s a process that has taken nearly two years since the RHEL 6 distribution was first released back in November of 2010.
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