Successful Common Criteria Evaluations: A Practical Guide for Vendors
The Common Criteria product security standards are being used by 26 governments around the world to evaluate and certify commercial IT products. These standards and the evaluation process are obscure and complex.Commercial product vendors have been struggling with this for over a decade in order to qualify their products for sale to their government customers. Successful Common Criteria Evaluations: A Practical Guide For Vendors provides valuable insights from years of hands-on experience into how to successfully, efficiently and cost-effectively complete Common Criteria evaluations. Learn the basic philosophy behind CC. Learn about the best practices used by experienced vendors.  Avoid the pitfalls discovered by practitioners. Uncover the secrets to meeting customer requirements. I share my experiences with this obscure and complex process so that other vendors can navigate through it more easily. I am taking a commercial product vendor's view and provide practical guidance based on years of experience including 15 successful CC evaluations and 4 failed attempts. I will also share some stories and lessons learned I have gathered from other vendors. This book is primarily aimed at the first-time CC evaluation vendor - to help him/her avoid the pitfalls that might lead to an expensive, unsuccessful evaluation. More experienced vendors may benefit from the lessons learned through my many experiences across a wide variety of products, governments, evaluation labs and consultants