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BlackBerry Enterprise Server Becomes First Mobile Platform to Achieve Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification
May 2009 by Marc Jacob
Research In Motion (RIM) announced that BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 5.0 has been awarded Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+) certification. Common Criteria is an international standard for evaluating security products. Widely respected for its extensive and comprehensive evaluation by an independent third party, EAL4+ accreditation examines the design, software development methodology, and security mechanisms of BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
The Common Criteria is an international standard for validating that IT products meet specific security requirements. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server software has been independently evaluated by a third-party Common Criteria evaluation facility and meets the security criteria for EAL 4+. This evaluation assurance level is accepted under the Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement (CCRA) by 26 countries including:
• Australia
• Austria
• Canada
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• India
• Israel
• Italy
• Japan
• Republic of Korea
• Malaysia
• New Zealand
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Pakistan
• Singapore
• Spain
• Sweden
• Turkey
• United Kingdom
• United States
The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution is used by thousands of security-conscious organizations and governments around the world, and has passed rigorous security assessments by many of the leading security institutions around the world.
The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution has been certified by Fraunhofer Institute SIT, and has been approved for use under the CAPS program in the UK. The solution has also had several FIPS-140 validations for its embedded encryption module.
The EAL4+ certification for BlackBerry Enterprise Server is expected to be posted on the Common Criteria Portal later this month (http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/). BlackBerry® Device Software 5.0 is currently being tested and is expected to be awarded EAL4+ certification closer to the time of software availability later this year.
