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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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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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Automated Cryptographic Validation Protocol (ACVP) support from atsec
atsec is proud to present support for the NIST ACVP testing framework which replaces the legacy NIST CAVS testing. Cryptographic algorithm validation program (CAVP) testing is required for cryptographic modules undergoing conformance testing and validation according to the FIPS 140-2 specification. It is also required for Common Criteria evaluations performed in…
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NDcPP v2.1 has been published
The Network International Technical Community (iTC) published the Network Device Collaborative Protection Profile (NDcPP) version 2.1. This is the latest update to the NDcPP series of cPPs. Vendors looking to perform a NIAP evaluation using this cPP will need to wait until NIAP approves the new version. In…
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SP 800-56B and RSAES-PKCS1-v1.5 Update
Near the end of 2017, NIAP issued and later retracted Labgram #106. This Labgram warned that RSAES-PKCS1-v1.5 would be disallowed by NIST after 2017 which meant that it would also be disallowed by NIAP after 2017 in CC evaluations. The reason for the retraction was because NIST delayed…
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atsec partners with major retail outlets for provision of security assurance
In a major announcement, atsec information security announces the establishment of partnerships with major retail outlets around the world, in a bid to provide more convenient provision of security assurance to users of commercial IT products. Users of commercial off the shelf products purchased through major retail outlets…
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Mea Culpa
Unfortunately, atsec has been accused of distributing fake news. Here at atsec we take such an accusation seriously. We have performed a thorough internal investigation and have determined that the accusation is true. atsec has been guilty of disseminating fake news on an annual basis for the last…
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The Vatican Signs the ISO/IEC 15408 International Recognition Arrangement
Recognizing the need for secure IT products in all regions of the world, and in support of an internationally agreed Arrangement allowing for the mutual recognition of independently evaluated and validated information technology (IT) products, the Vatican has decided to sign the ISO/IEC 15408 International Recognition Arrangement (I2RA)…
