Cisco NAC Solution receives Common Criteria EAL2+ Certification

The Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) solution including the NAC Appliance, NAC Network Module for Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISRs), NAC Agent, NAC Profiler, and Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) just received Common Criteria EAL2+ Certification. This certification assures customers that Cisco’s NAC solution has gone through a rigorous analysis and testing process and conforms to standards sanctioned by the International Standards Organization. Common Criteria certification is part of an international standard that has been in effect since 1999 and is in use by 25 countries. Cisco NAC was certified for Protection Profile Conformance with U.S. Government Protection Profile Intrusion Detection System Analyzer for Basic Robustness Environments, Version 1.3, dated July 25, 2007. Cisco went all out in their certification testing. In addition to testing just about all of the NAC hardware solutions Cisco has, they also tested just about every possible deployment scenario they have. This includes In-Band Edge, In-Band Central, and Out-of-Band Central. They also tested in both Layer 2 and Layer 3 mode. The breadth of testing done makes Cisco a contender for the most comprehensive EAL2+ test of any certified (all 3 of them) NAC solution. To read the Common Criteria results go here: http://www.dsd.gov.au/infosec/evaluation_services/epl/network_security/network_admission_control.html For general information on Common Criteria go here: http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/