Sensitive Data Protection: Media Hysteria or a Call to Action?

by Thomas J. Meehan
September 1, 2006

International Certification for Sensitive Data Protection

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) manages and staffs the Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS), a national program for the evaluation of products for conformance to the International Common Criteria for Information Technology Security. Look to select a secure z/OS disk erase solution that has CCEVS certification at a Common Criteria assurance level of EAL2 or higher. The NSA maintains a list of sensitive data protection products that have successfully completed evaluation at http://niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/vpl/vpl_type.html. Z