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Security Benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM System z

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Overview For enterprise and government organizations, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM System z provides significant security benefits. System z provides robust physical security, virtualization, hardware cryptographic acceleration, and audit capabilities. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 combines an innovative, transparent, vigilant, and inclusive approach to security with a wide variety of features that protect systems against attack, particularly in the area of buffer overflow and other memory-based attacks. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on System z gives organizations one Linux architecture across the enterprise, support for Security Enhanced Linux, a Common Criteria EAL4+ certification under CAPP, RBAC, and LSPP, cryptographic acceleration, and centralized authentication.

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Publisher	Red Hat	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mainframes, Linux - Open Source

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