Bringing Back the Common in Common Criteria (B22c)
With ever increasing demand for product certifications with newer requirements, overload of demands on all stakeholders, and the desire to bring back the Common in Common Criteria, how can the process of requirements, submissions, and certifications be streamlined? There has to be a better way! The “Common” in Common Criteria is ever-increasingly “Uncommon”. We continually strive to improve evaluations and testing across product categories by establishing PPs, cPPs, PP-Modules, etc., but then we rely almost exclusively on generating human readable documents, humans interpreting those requirements and then only humans evaluating vendor submitted documents and evidence. Aren’t computers consistently more efficient at repetitive tasks? Some might say as long as they are properly instructed on how to do the right thing. The presenters will examine how converting PPs, STs, SFRs, SARs, into a standards-based, machine-readable format could enable significant acceleration of the certification process while maintaining high assurance and flexibility for all stakeholders. A true Win, Win, Win situation.