Re: [IDS] IDS Common Criteria

At 11:00 PM 1/7/2003 +0000, Talisker wrote:
>Sadly within the public sector installing an IDS isn't merely a question of

You've hit the hidden nail pretty close to its head. The U.S Government public sector now requires significant Certification and Accreditation (C&A) efforts for any new infrastructure being stood up and it is in the process of introducing C&A into existing infrastructure. CC product certifications are an integral part of the C&A process now, and they're not going away. The U.S. Military has been doing C&A on their critical infrastructure for as long
as I can remember. The point is that post 9/11 pretty much -everything- in the U.S. .gov and .mil network domains is being identified as critical infrastructure.

 From the outside-in view, CC and it's C&A parent are bureaucratic at best and Byzantine at worst. In the projects I'm involved with these days, I spend as much time on C&A issues as I do on technical issues. I'm seeing the process from the inside. It does get mind-bogglingly complex sometimes, and everyone I know that's involved relieves the pressure with an occasional witty rant or two. My previous humorous comments aside though, C&A has identified weakness in infrastructure that would have escaped detection otherwise. C&A has this annoying habit of working.

Sure, the overall process can be improved, and I'm sure it will - but it does what it's supposed to do now. From a structural security perspective, C&A is essential. I wouldn't be surprised to see the commercial sector adopt C&A processes and demand CC certs in the next year or two.

>just my 2c

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Randy Received on Tue Jan 7 19:07:49 2003

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