Window NT 3.51 has been certified F-C2 secure in the UK after meeting Britain’s ITSEC Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria, reports ClieNT Server News. The F-C2 clearance came with an E3 assurance rating, a designation typically awarded only to software that meets the far more stringent B-level security classification. The ITSEC rating, which parallels NT’s C-level security rating in the US, will let Redmond bid NT to both the UK and German governments immediately, with France and Holland slated to begin accepting ITSEC next year. Redmond said it took it about a year, from start to finish, to earn the ITSEC rating. It can now thumb its nose at Novell Inc, which applied for F-C2 almost two years ago but hasn’t yet been cleared.
