What does it mean to “adopt” OVAL?
For an information security product or service to be recognized as an official adopter of OVAL, it must provide one or more of the five high-level OVAL Capabilities, each of which targets a different usage of the OVAL Language: • OVAL Authoring Tool — A product that aids in the process of creating new OVAL files (including products that consolidate existing definitions into a single file). • OVAL Definition Evaluator — A product that uses an OVAL Definition to guide evaluation and produces OVAL Results (full results) as output. • OVAL Definition Repository — A repository of OVAL Definitions made available to the community (free or pay). • OVAL System Characteristics Producer — A product that generates a valid OVAL System Characteristics file based on the details of a system. • OVAL Results Consumer — A product that accepts OVAL Results as input and either displays those results to the user, or uses the results to perform some action. These capabilities enable members of the OVAL commun
