Short answer: probably not much! For most vendors and users of the CC, things will roll on normally. It will be the national certification schemes, labs and technical communities that must adjust. Long answer: there are some aspects and circumstances …
This post aims to answer the most common questions we get about NDcPP 3.0:
[Updated July 6, 2021 – NIAP requires exact match CPU specs in CAVP certificates] Most CC evaluations performed in North America include cryptographic security claims called out in the target Protection Profile (PP) that is being used. Those requirements are …
The Network Device international Technical Community recently (in December 2019) published version 2.2 of the collaborative Protection Profile for Network Devices – aka – NDcPP. The NDcPP is the most often used Common Criteria Protection Profile to achieve listing on …
Vendors with products on NIAP’s Common Criteria Product Compliant List (PCL) may from time-to-time receive a request from NIAP for a mitigation plan addressing a given widespread vulnerability (e.g. Meltdown, Spectre etc.). This is in keeping with NIAP Policy 17 …
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security recently released its updated Common Criteria (CC) Program Instructions which state that they will consider accepting EAL3 and EAL4 evaluations on a case by case basis. Evaluations were previously restricted to those claiming an …
[March 14, 2019 update] The NIAP list of TDs is now up to date with NDcPP v2.1 attribution. NIAP announced their endorsement today of version 2.1 of the Network Device collaborative Protection Profile. We’ve previously described the changes in NDcPP v2.1. …
[March 12, 2019 Update] NDcPPv2.1 has been formally endorsed by NIAP. There are 41 products listed on the NIAP PCL that are compliant with the collaborative Protection Profile for Network Devices (NDcPP) v1.0. These PCL listings will all expire within the next …
We took a strategic decision early on at Lightship Security to focus our initial Greenlight development efforts on automating the tests specified by the Network Device collaborative Protection Profile (NDcPP). There are two main reasons for this: It is the …
[March 12, 2019 Update] NDcPPv2.1 has been formally endorsed by NIAP. NDcPPv2.1 is hot off the presses from the Network iTC. It is yet to be officially accepted by NIAP for PCL usage however this is probably not too far off, …
