Cipher Communications Pty Ltd commences Common Criteria Accreditation for DICA - BlueCrypt

Cipher Communications Pty Ltd a wholly Australian owned supplier of IT security products, today announced the commencement of Common Criteria accreditation for the DICA Technologies "BlueCrypt" ISDN encryption products - to the assurance level of EAL4.

The Common Criteria (CC) is the most prestigious and rigorous international security evaluation standard available for IT & T products.

The CC was developed through collaboration among national security and standards organisations within Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, as a common standard to replace their existing security evaluation criteria.

The national organisations have worked with the International Organisation for Standards (ISO) to ensure that the CC was suitable to become a formal standard and it has rapidly become the world standard and preferred method for security product specifications and evaluations.

Certification to the Common Criteria under the Australiasian Information Security Evaluation Program (AISEP) requires an in-depth analysis of product design and development methodology backed up by extensive testing, undertaken by a licensed Australasian Information Security Evaluation Facility (AISEF) - in this case CSC Australia Ltd.

Gaining Common Criteria Certification will help establish the BlueCrypt product both nationally and internationally, as Corporate and Government realise the risk mitigation benefits of using evaluated products.

EVALUATED PRODUCTS LIST - AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT CERTIFICATION

The Defence Signals Directorate Evaluated Products List (EPL) is the definitive reference for the identification of all products for use in Australian and New Zealand Government systems.

For more information on the EPL see www.dsd.gov.au/infosec