The Handbook for the Computer Security Certification of Trusted Systems
Judith N. Froscher, Jr Payne, N. Charles · 1992
The Navy has designated the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) as its Center for Computer Security Research and Evaluation. NRL is actively developing a Navy capability to certify trusted systems. This paper describes the NRL effort to understand assurance, certification, and trusted system certification criteria through the production of the Handbook for the Computer Security Certification of Trusted Systems. Through this effort, NRL hopes to discover new and more efficient ways of satisfying the assurance requirement for a high assurance system. 1 Introduction In the past few years, DoD policy makers have begun to view computer security as an enabling technology, which will allow the Services to share classified information securely and legitimately. Several factors motivated this change in policy. The computer security community, primarily through the leadership of the National Computer Security Center, convinced industry that there is a real need for computer security products. Indus...