CA Access Control Earns Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 3+ Certification

ISLANDIA, N.Y., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA) today announced that CA Access Control r12 SP1 has earned Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 3+, augmented by ALC FLR.1 and ASE TSS.2. The evaluation was carried out in accordance with the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme.

Common Criteria is an internationally recognized independent security certification recognized by governments in more than 26 countries, including the United States. Certification is granted when a Common Criteria testing laboratory determines that a product meets a defined measure of security. The certification addresses product functionality, development environment, documentation and product testing measures.

"Obtaining Common Criteria validation gives our global public sector and enterprise customers the confidence that CA Access Control can help them meet their security needs for protecting various operating systems — including all of the common virtualization servers (hypervisors) — and controlling privileged user access to help protect against internal threats," said Dave Hansen, corporate senior vice president and general manager of CA's Security and Compliance business unit.  

CA Access Control provides a comprehensive solution for host access control, virtualization security, and privileged user management. It protects critical servers, hypervisors, applications, and devices across multiple platforms and operating systems by controlling access and providing secure audits and reports. CA Access Control also helps meet regulatory compliance demands by applying password management and other policies that define and control privileged user access to system resources while tracking their activity.

The CA Access Control evaluation was performed on a UNIX® platform by Booz Allen Hamilton's Common Criteria Testing Laboratory (CCTL). The Booz Allen Hamilton lab is one of only nine U.S.-based CCTLs approved by NIAP and meets the Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme. The Booz Allen CCTL conducts IT security evaluations for conformance to the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation, International Standard ISO/IEC 15408:1999.

CA SiteMinder was recently evaluated under the Common Criteria. Additional CA security products currently in evaluation include CA Identity Manager, CA Enterprise Log Manager, CA Federation Manager, and CA ACF2™ r14, CA Top Secret® r14 and CA Compliance Manager for z/OS r1.  

About Common Criteria

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA) established the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) to evaluate IT product conformance to the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation, an international standard. The program, officially known as the NIAP Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS) is a partnership between the public and private sectors to help organizations select commercial off-the-shelf information technology (IT) products that meet their security requirements and to help manufacturers of those products gain acceptance in the global marketplace. Twenty-six countries now recognize the Common Criteria as third-party evaluation criteria for IT security procedures.

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