NIAP chief touts Common Criteria

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NIAP chief touts Common Criteria
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/1025/web-niap-10-27-04.asp

By Rutrell Yasin
Oct. 27, 2004

Officials at the National Information Assurance Partnership have
effectively raised the level of security in many information
technology products used by the government, the security group's
director said today.

The aim of NIAP, an initiative of the National Institute of Standards
and Technology and the National Security Agency, is to increase the
level of trust users have in their information systems through the use
of security testing, evaluation and validation programs. To that end,
NIAP officials are responsible for implementing the Common Criteria
Evaluation and Validation Scheme, a rigorous set of security tests
that adhere to international standards. NIAP officials provide
technical guidelines to eight commercial laboratories which conduct
the tests.

Statistics gleaned from the labs' Common Criteria work indicates that
the testing is improving security, said Jean Schaffer, director of
NIAP. Schaffer spoke during a session at a Federal Information
Assurance Conference held this week at the University of Maryland.

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