Congratulations to our partner EMC on successfully completing the Common Criteria certification process for their product, Isilon OneFS v7.2.0.4. With this validation, EMC Isilon will continue to be a trusted option for governments and industries who have stringent security requirements for protecting and securing data. These governments and industries mandate the highest level of security requirements for implementation and only employ products committed to providing users and networks with a trusted storage platform. EMC’s active participation in the Common Criteria evaluation process emphasizes its dedication to providing clients with a proven and trusted product. You can learn more about the validation of Isilon here.
As global data processing needs continue to grow and evolve, the need for efficient, effective, secure and scalable solutions is more pressing. For nearly two decades, Corsec has demonstrated expertise in this domain, and through strategic partnerships, companies like EMC have been able to shorten go to market cycles by way of achieving security certifications.
About Common Criteria
Common Criteria is an internationally recognized set of guidelines (ISO 15408), which define a common framework for evaluating security features and capabilities of Information Technology security products. The standard consists of several predetermined evaluation assurance levels, each one more stringent than the last. Common Criteria allows vendors to have their products tested against a chosen level by an independent third-party testing laboratory. The Common Criteria Mutual Recognition Agreement (CCRA) is a pact, which was designed to allow all evaluations up to an evaluation assurance level (EAL) 2, to be recognized by all participating countries, regardless of where the evaluation was completed. There are currently 25 countries involved in the CCRA, including the United States and Canada, with others that follow unofficially such as the EU. The U.S. government mandates common Criteria certification of security products for federal purchases. The National Information Assurance Acquisition Policy, NSTISSP No. 11, requires agencies to purchase only those commercial security products that have met specified third-party assurance requirements and have been tested by an accredited national laboratory.
About EMC Isilon
EMC Isilon is a scale out network attached storage platform for high volume storage, backup and archiving of unstructured data. It takes a scale-out approach to storage by creating a cluster of nodes that runs a distributed file system. OneFS combines the three layers of storage architecture—file system, volume manager, and data protection – into a scale-out NAS2 cluster.
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