ZTE Corporation has announced that it has been awarded the ISO 15408 Common Criteria Certificate for its GSM equipment. With this, ZTE has become the first telecom company in the world to get the ISO 15408 Common Criteria (CC) Certificate for its GSM equipment MSCS (Mobile Switching Center Server). The ISO 15408 Common Criteria (CC) Certificate is currently the highest level of security certification for telecommunication equipments.
Currently Common Criteria (CC) is the internationally recognized information technology security certification required. The standard adopted in this certification is IEC/ISO15408, which is also known as the CC standard, or the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation. CC certification is managed by the national security agency of each CC member state. There are 26 CC member states, including European nations, the United States and Japan, as well as India.
The CC certification includes the evaluation of technologies such as security performance, loophole analysis, encryption technology and product manual. It also includes systematic evaluations of the entire process from R&D procedure and configuration management to production and shipping.