-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 10/31/02 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:55:50 -0600 From: "NIPC Watch" <nipcwatch@private> To: "Information Technology" <information_technology@private> October 30, Government Computer News NSA and NIST complete profiles for security needs. The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Security Agency have completed profiles for recommended security features for five of the 10 technology areas the agencies have targeted for profile development. The Protection Profiles, when completed, will be included in the evaluation process for Common Criteria certification of IT security products. Protection Profile development began about two years ago as a cooperative program between NIST, which develops standards for non-classified IT products, and NSA, which handles requirements for the classified and intelligence community. Because the Common Criteria program only evaluates IT products against the manufacturer's claims, without required security specifications, the Protection Profiles will give users a way to determine how robust a product's security features are. Source: http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20373-1.html _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv http://listserv.infragard.org/mailman/listinfo/information_technology
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