iDRAC9 Security Configuration Guide

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)

FIPS is a system security standard that United States government agencies and contractors must use. Starting from version 2.40.40.40, iDRAC supports enabling FIPS mode. iDRAC supports FIPS 140-2 certification operation modes. Enabling FIPS mode results in iDRAC using a certified FIPS module for cryptographic functionality. Because both the FIPS module and iDRAC’s default crypto mechanisms provide strong security, enabling FIPS is only recommended as a security configuration in environments that require adherence to this standard, but can be securely enabled in other environments as well.

The NIST certificate is located at https://csrc.nist.gov/projects. And to refer to the security policy, click https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media.