Enabling FIPS 140-2 compliance

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are guidelines that set best practices for software and hardware computer security products. Products that support FIPS standards can be set into a mode where the product only uses FIPS approved algorithms and methods. Security toolkits typically support both FIPS approved and non-FIPS approved functions. In FIPS mode, the product is incapable of using any non-FIPS approved methods.

About this task

The following links describe the process for enabling FIPS. Although the topics are for AppScan, they are applicable to Design Management for both Rational Software Architect and Rhapsody.

Results

Enabling FIPS for IBM WebSphere:Enabling FIPS WebSphere

Enabling FIPS for Apache Tomcat: Enabling FIPS Apache Tomcat


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