Consistency Instruction Manuals

With many profiles being developed by numerous organizations within NIST and NSA, it has become apparent that in order for the organizations to lead in this area, IA Protection Profile (PP) efforts need to be closely coordinated to facilitate representing a consistent strategic view to our customer base. After review of a number of PPs, a number of consistent items relative to a given robustness have been captured and recorded in a document referred to as the Consistency Instruction Manual. These PP Consistency Instruction Manuals were developed by the PP Review Board (PPRB) to identify and set forth frameworks of consistent security requirements relative to the appropriate robustness for the specification of products, based on Version 2.2 of the Common Criteria, International Standard 15408. Details of the complete Common Criteria may be found at http://www.niap-ccevs.org/cc-scheme/cc-docs.html

It is the intent of the PPRB that these instruction manuals be periodically updated. Feedback on its content may be forwarded to pp-comments@niap-ccevs.org.

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  Basic Robustness Environments
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  Medium Robustness Environments

Robustness Frequently Asked Questions