Thales Products validated to Common Criteria
The Common Criteria project harmonises ITSEC, CTCPEC (Canadian Criteria) and US Federal Criteria (FC) into the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC) for use in evaluating products and systems and for stating security requirements in a standardised way. Increasingly it is replacing national and regional criteria with a worldwide set accepted by the International Standards Organisation (ISO15408).
The international community has embraced the CC through the Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement (CCRA) whereby the signers have agreed to accept the results of CC evaluations performed by other CCRA members.
Thales Products validated to Common Criteria:
- Thales' Datacryptor is the first network security product to be awarded EAL Level 5 in the UK, and has also been awarded EAL Level 4 in Australia. This independent evaluation by Common Criteria means that Datacryptor 2000 and Datacryptor AP are approved for use across 26 nations including the UK , the USA , France , Germany and Canada.
- Datacryptor SONET/SDH OC-3/12/48/192, 1 & 10 Gbps Ethernet models have been validated to EAL Level 3 in the US.
- The Thales nShield Solo family of Hardware Security Modules (in both PCI Express and PCI form factors), part of the nCipher product line, has been awarded Common Criteria EAL 4+. This nShield Solo family is also incorporated into the Thales nShield Connect, Thales netHSM and Thales Time Stamp Server; ensuring that the strong security properties of the nCipher Product Line are validated to both NIST FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria. Thales is the first vendor to offer Common Criteria across an entire product line; providing customers with the broadest and most flexible range of Common Criteria certified solutions. Note that this certification does not include the nShield Edge.