atsec Provides Common Criteria Evaluator Course for ISCCC
2012-01-20Beijing, China – atsec was invited by the China Information Security Certification Center (hereinafter “ISCCC”) to give an information security course on Common Criteria.
The course lecturer was Dr. Yi Mao, a principal consultant of atsec. Technical experts from ISCCC participated in the five-day course which focused on several major topics, such as the basic concepts of Common Criteria, the security functional requirements, the security assurance requirements, and performing evaluations. There were in-depth discussions and interactions between the lecturer and students during the training. All of the students took the examination at the end of the course and commented that they benefited greatly from the training activity, and the course has been helpful to improve their work.
This course is another example of atsec’s effort to share security-related technical knowledge and experience, and work together with the industry all over the world to promote the development of information security.
About atsec information security
atsec information security is an independent, standards-based information technology security services company with offices in the U.S., Germany, Sweden, and China. atsec's services include formal laboratory testing and evaluation of information assurance (IA) and IA-enabled commercial off the shelf (COTS) information technology, as well as information security consultancy.
atsec offers evaluation and testing services leading to formal certification of information security technology, including evaluations under Common Criteria schemes in the U.S., Germany, and Sweden. In addition, the atsec US organization operates a Cryptographic and Security Testing Laboratory accredited under the Cryptographic Module Validation and the Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Programs of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S. and Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) in Canada for validating cryptographic modules under the FIPS 140-2 standard.
atsec is also an experienced Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council Qualified Security Assessor (QSA), Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV), and Payment Application Qualified Security Assessor (PA-QSA) and accredited as a third-party auditor for the North American Security Products Organization (NASPO).
We work with leading global companies such as Apple, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Quantum Corporation, Red Hat, and ZTE Corporation.
