HID receives Common Criteria certification
03 November, 2010
category: Contactless, Government
HID Global announced that it has obtained a site certificate for its Galway, Ireland e-government solutions manufacturing facility from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), which supports product certifications conformance up to the Common Criteria assurance level EAL5+.
The site certificate covers the initialization and production environments and processes for personal electronic identification (e-ID) products, including contactless inlays for e-passports and contactless national ID cards.
Common Criteria is an internationally approved set of rigorous security standards that ensures a clear and reliable evaluation of the security capabilities of information technology products for government customers, and site certificates from the BSI are accepted in all countries following the Common Criteria specifications.