What benefits does the ITSEC evaluation bring to users?
Users can take advantage of the ITSEC evaluation as part of creating a more formal IT policy by making sure they are buying products which have been certified under the scheme have the assurance that security features are correctly implemented and that areas of vulnerability have been identified and removed. The ITSEC evaluation is comprehensive because it provides an umbrella for determining standards and procedures for evaluation. ITSEC is now an international standard recognized throughout Europe and beyond. France, Germany and the Netherlands, as well as the UK, cooperated in establishing criteria under the ITSEC banner. For these reasons an increasing number of vendors have been turning to the ITSEC certification program as an essential third party endorsement of their products, such as operating systems, access control devices, networking products, databases, communication and encryption devices. Most importantly of all by purchasing ITSEC certified products users can be confiden
