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A Multi-Level Model for Common Criteria Certificate Maintenance
by Trang Huynh I had the privilege of being on a discussion panel at the NIAP Validator Workshop this past June. The topic for the panel was “Continuous Software Update,” and the issue we were trying to tackle was Common Criteria (CC) evaluations for products with a high…
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atsec’s ACVT service is operational
atsec is proud to announce that the Automated Cryptographic Validation Testing (ACVT) service is operational. The atsec Cryptographic Security Testing (CST) laboratory is the first ever to achieve operational status with the Automated Cryptographic Validation Protocol (ACVP) production server operated by NIST. atsec’s ACVP tools are fully implemented…
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atsec’s Rome office is accredited by OCSI for Common Criteria evaluations
atsec is pleased to announce that the atsec Rome office has been accredited by the Italian scheme, OCSI, for performing Common Criteria evaluations. This is in addition to the accreditations by the Italian security agency, OCSI of our atsec laboratories in the U.S., Germany and Sweden. Garibaldi Conte:…
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Congratulating Qualcomm on CC certification of their Snapdragon 855 SOC
atsec congratulates Qualcomm on the successful evaluation of their Snapdragon 855 system on a chip (SOC) processor. The evaluation was performed jointly by atsec information security laboratory GmbH and T-Systems International GmbH laboratory; with the software evaluation being performed by atsec, and the hardware evaluation performed by T-Systems. atsec…
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ATSEC PROVIDED PCI TRAINING AT VISA SECURITY SUMMIT 2019
China, Shanghai—From June 19th to 20th, Visa held the Asia Pacific Security Summit in Shanghai, China. During the “Ecosystem Data Security Workshop” on the 19th, Diana Greenhaw, VISA’s Vice President of Global Payment System Risk, gave a speech on “Ecosystem Risk Updates—A Global Perspective”. As one of the…
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International Cryptographic Module Conference 2019 in Vancouver, Canada
After a day of pre-conference workshops, the 7th International Cryptographic Module Conference (ICMC) was kicked off this morning with a welcome address from atsec’s VP and Lab Director Yi Mao. (from left to right: Renaudt Nunez, Stephan Mueller, Fiona Pattinson, Swapneela Unkule, Yi Mao) Yi Mao’s Opening Speech…
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Green Entropy
White Paper international Think-tank Community (iTC) April 1st, 2019 Green Entropy Tasked with consideration of ways and means to reduce the carbon footprint of IT security; after a year of deliberation the iTC have produced the following summary of their report. The full report is available on request to itc@green-entropy.org Research…
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International Women’s Day
Happy International Women’s Day to all our wonderful atsec colleagues in Europe, US and Asia.
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Cryptographic module related work in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27/WG 3
For several years the value of conformance testing against the FIPS 140-2 specification has been well accepted, and the assurance gained through validated conformance has been specified in several other markets.