JUNOS FIPS - License - 1 router

JUNOS FIPS - License - 1 router

JUNOS-FIPS is a version of the JUNOS software that complies with FIPS 140-2 documentation. The FIPS documents define, among other things, security levels for computer and networking equipment. U.S. Federal Government departments, and other organizations, use FIPS to evaluate the cryptographic capabilities of the equipment they consider for purchase. Cryptographic modules are validated against 11 separate areas of the FIPS 140-2 specification. An overall certification level is assigned based on the minimum level achieved in any area.
Although primarily aimed at environments requiring strict security, FIPS levels are increasingly enforced as qualifying criteria for all U.S. Federal Government contracts. Security-conscious private enterprises might also use FIPS levels as an equipment evaluation benchmark. FIPS levels also serve as a customer-neutral description of vendor requirements. Vendors can engineer security products to FIPS levels and extend the applicability and eligibility of these products across a broad customer base, thereby eliminating exhaustive and time-consuming customer-by-customer product qualification procedures.