The Common Criteria (CC) is short for the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation and is based on the ISO/IEC 15408 – Information Security, Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection series. The Common Criteria is mutually recognised by over 30 countries under the Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement (CCRA) and provides a scheme by which vendors can have their products independently evaluated by licensed laboratories, such as Viden. Evaluations are designed to verify the extent to which a vendor product fulfills particular security claims or properties. The objective of the scheme is to improve the availability of formally evaluated IT products or systems, whilst also ensuring product evaluations are conducted consistently and to the highest standards.