Samsung announced that the company’s
selected Galaxy devices with KNOX embedded have received Common Criteria (CC) certification, as
officially documented by Gossamer Labs of Catonsville, MD. Common
Criteria is the international “gold standard” for secure and
trusted systems that ensures they satisfy a predefined set of
security requirements designed for enterprises.
Common Criteria certification assures
that certified devices are independently evaluated and verified to
meet fundamental security requirements specified in the Protection
Profile. The current CC certification targets the new Mobile Device
Fundamentals Protection Profile (MDFPP) of National Information
Assurance Partnership (NIAP) published in October 2013, which
addresses the security requirements of mobile devices for use in
enterprise.
The components certified in CC form a
cryptographic foundation on which more advanced KNOX security
features are implemented. This certification validates that
enterprises can safely provide their workers access to networks and
high-value information assets using CC-certified Galaxy devices with
KNOX embedded.
Jim Arnold, Director of Gossamer
Security Solutions, commented that “rarely a company can complete
an entire Common Criteria evaluation in under four months”. We say,
good job, Samsung. Gossamer has over 60 years of experience in
product security evaluations, and the Common Criteria certification
is, to put it mildly, extremely
elaborate.
Moreover, this accomplishment certainly throws the gauntlet
to BlackBerry, which considers its competing enterprise security
product, BES, a superior solution. Although BB OS 7 and BES 5 obtained a Common Criteria certification
in 2007, BB 10 and related software products are yet to "win the gold”.
source: Samsung
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