A Certified NIAP CC Testing Laboratory (CCTL)
- Credentials:
First TTAP lab • Original CC lab • Expert Staff
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- Services:
EAL1-7 evaluations • Evidence preparation • Consulting • Training
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- Experience:
Orange Book & CC • Advanced CC
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- Expertise:
PKI • Cryptography • Guards • Hardware • Network
devices • Chips • Databases
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- Evaluations:
Operating Systems • Firewalls • EAL5 • PPs
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- Contact:
(703) 270-3563 • eMail
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Credentials - CygnaCom's
SEL is a certified National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP)
Common Criteria Testing (CCTL) Laboratory, authorized to conduct
product evaluations according to the Common Criteria (CC) (ISO/IEC
15408) and the Common Evaluation Methodology (CEM) under the U.S.
Scheme. NIAP is a collaboration of the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency
(NSA). The SEL was in the original group of CCTLs to be certified.
Earlier, CygnaCom's SEL was the first commercial laboratory to be
authorized by the NSA to perform security evaluations of computer
products under the 
Trust Technology Assessment
Program (TTAP), using the US Government's Trusted Computer System
Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC), Classes C2 and B1, and was the first
laboratory to complete a security product evaluation under TTAP. The
evaluation of ITT Industries' Dragonfly Guard, a network security
device that provides encryption, source authentication, integrity,
and discretionary and mandatory access control, was completed in
less than 3 months.
See our SEL
Evaluated Products page for a complete list of products that
have been or are being evaluated in our CCTL.
Services - The SEL offers a full
range of NIAP accredited services. These consist of evaluating
Protection Profiles (PPs), Security Targets (STs), and IT products
(called Targets of Evaluation, TOEs, in CC terminology), at EAL1
through EAL4. Additional services include evaluations at EAL5
through EAL7 and above. Each of these activities is conducted under
various levels of U.S. government participation - a requirement of a
NIAP accreditation (and U.S. government recognition, in the cases of
EAL 5 through EAL7 evaluations). PPs and STs are the security
requirement specifications required by the CC for evaluations.
In addition to the NIAP accredited services, the SEL offers
guidance and assistance in preparing for Common Criteria evaluation,
including help in preparing criteria and documentation. The SEL also
offers general security consulting services and CC training.
The SEL can also help clients navigate computer security
standards and evaluation requirements including:
- Product architecture, design, implementation, and
documentation review
- Training for security product design and development teams
- Security consulting in product design and engineering
Experience - CygnaCom's
security engineers include former TCSEC senior evaluators, team
leaders, and a Technical Review Board (TRB) member. Cygnacom's SEL
has advanced expertise in writing Protection Profiles and Security
Targets, the security requirement specifications required by the CC
for evaluations. A Cygnacom engineer wrote the Security Target used
for the first successful TTAP CC evaluation.
CygnaCom staff have experience with high assurance product
evaluations and formal specification at A1 (Logical Co-processing
Kernel (LOCK), Gemini Trusted Network Processor (GTNP), SACDIN
security kernel for a multi-level secure message communication
system) and at B3 (Wang XTS-300 Operating System). (A1 is an Orange
Book criterion similar to CC EAL7 and B3 is a criterion similar to
EAL6.) They are also experienced in assessing high assurance guards
(Secure Network Server (SNS) Guard and Defense Messaging System
(DMS) Guard).
Expertise - CygnaCom SEL staff have
domain expertise in PKI (Public Key Infrastucture), cryptography,
operating systems, high assurance guards, network devices, standards
conformance, and databases.
Contact - If you would like additional
information about CygnaCom's SEL laboratory and related services,
please call us at (703) 270-3563 or eMail us at selinfo@cygnacom.com.