Is Common Criteria widely recognized?
top) The Common Criteria Recognition Agreement (CCRA) allows IT products that earn a CC certificate to be procured and used in different jurisdictions without the need for them to be evaluated and certified/validated more than once. The CCRA has 25 signatory countries. Some signatories perform evaluations and certificates, while others do not. However, evaluations and certificates produced by any of the issuer countries is accepted by all 25 signatories. By recognizing the results of each other’s evaluations, products evaluated in one CCRA member nation can be accepted in the other member nations.