CyberGuard enter evaluation for protection profile for firewalls. (Security).CyberGuard Corporation will enter evaluation for the new U.S. Department of Defense Firewall Protection Profile for Medium Robustness Environments" (MRPP MRPP Men's Rape Prevention Project MRPP Movimento Reorganizativo do Partido do Proletariado MRPP Memphis Regional Planned Parenthood ), version 1.0. The new MRPP supersedes earlier versions that address traffic filter and application-level firewalls separately. Developed as an independent means of validating that security products, such as firewalls, address threats that exist in a specific environment, protection profiles serve to extend the National Information Assurance Acquisition Policy (NSTISSP NSTISSP National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Policy No. 11), which took effect July 2002. That policy mandates that government agencies only purchase information security products, including firewalls, which have been evaluated and certified according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. internationally recognized Common Criteria (Common Criteria for Information Technology Security) An international standard process for defining security objectives and for evaluating compliance with those objectives. The Common Criteria have largely replaced the Trusted Computer Security Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC), the Canadian . In August, the DoD issued a memorandum stating further that products must also meet protection profiles. There are no firewall vendors who currently meet the earlier medium robustness protection profiles. About Common Criteria The Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CCITSE CCITSE Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation ) is a set of evaluative criteria agreed to by the National Security Agency/National Institute of Standards and Technologies and equivalent bodies worldwide. It was designed to resolve technical and conceptual differences among existing standards for evaluating network security systems and products. An international standard--ISO 15408--Common Criteria represents the outcome of efforts to develop criteria for evaluating IT security that are widely accepted within the international community and mutually recognized by 16 countries: US, UK, Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. Norway, Spain and Sweden. www.cyberguard.com |
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