The Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation is an international standard for computer security certification. It is currently in version 3.1 revision 5.
Trend Micro Inc. is a multinational cyber security and defense company with global headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, with regional headquarters and R&D centers in Asia, Europe, and North America. The company develops enterprise security software for servers, containers, & cloud computing environments, networks, and end points. Its cloud and virtualization security products provide automated security for customers of VMware, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
Trusted Operating System (TOS) generally refers to an operating system that provides sufficient support for multilevel security and evidence of correctness to meet a particular set of government requirements.
Qinetiq is a British multinational defence technology company headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire. It is the world's 52nd-largest defence contractor measured by 2011 defence revenues, and the sixth-largest based in the UK.
Multilevel security or multiple levels of security (MLS) is the application of a computer system to process information with incompatible classifications, permit access by users with different security clearances and needs-to-know, and prevent users from obtaining access to information for which they lack authorization. There are two contexts for the use of multilevel security. One is to refer to a system that is adequate to protect itself from subversion and has robust mechanisms to separate information domains, that is, trustworthy. Another context is to refer to an application of a computer that will require the computer to be strong enough to protect itself from subversion and possess adequate mechanisms to separate information domains, that is, a system we must trust. This distinction is important because systems that need to be trusted are not necessarily trustworthy.
The Evaluation Assurance Level of an IT product or system is a numerical grade assigned following the completion of a Common Criteria security evaluation, an international standard in effect since 1999. The increasing assurance levels reflect added assurance requirements that must be met to achieve Common Criteria certification. The intent of the higher levels is to provide higher confidence that the system's principal security features are reliably implemented. The EAL level does not measure the security of the system itself, it simply states at what level the system was tested.
The Chase School, also referred to as The Chase Technology College and The Chase High School, is a secondary school in Malvern, Worcestershire, England. The school opened as a Secondary Modern in 1953 under headteacher Mr Garth. It was officially opened by Lord Cobham on 26 March 1955. The Chase became a comprehensive with the abolition of selective education in Worcestershire in 1974 and became an academy on 1 November 2011. Teaching students from Year 7 to Year 13, The Chase has around 1,500 students, making it one of the larger schools in Worcestershire, with just over 300 students in the sixth form. Recent results, notably the headline measure of 5+ A*-C GCSEs including English and maths, are significantly above the national average at 72% in 2015 and 74% in 2014.
Qualys, Inc. provides cloud security, compliance and related services and is based in Foster City, California. Founded in 1999, Qualys was the first company to deliver vulnerability management solutions as applications through the web using a "software as a service" (SaaS) model, and as of 2013 Gartner Group for the fifth time gave Qualys a "Strong Positive" rating for these services. It has added cloud-based compliance and web application security offerings.
Secure Computing Corporation (SCC) was a public company that developed and sold computer security appliances and hosted services to protect users and data. McAfee acquired the company in 2008.
Boris Loza is the founder of SafePatrol Solutions and Tego Systems, as well as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He was born in Krasnodar, Russia, where he attained a Masters degree at the age of 22 and a PhD at the age of 26, both in Computer Science and Cybernetics. While still living in the former USSR, Loza published more than 30 scientific articles, as well as secured one patent. Upon relocating to Canada in 1996, his PhD was confirmed by the Higher Attestation Committee of The University of Toronto.
In information security, a guard is a device or system for allowing computers on otherwise separate networks to communicate, subject to configured constraints. In many respects a guard is like a firewall and guards may have similar functionality to a gateway.
The Signed and Encrypted Email Over the Internet (SEEOTI) initiative is an approach to providing small and medium enterprises with the ability to communicate securely with one another, government defence ministries and major aerospace and defence contractors, allowing them to play a full part in the defence supply chain.
Sqrrl Data, Inc. is an American company founded in 2012 that markets software for big data analytics and cyber security. The company has roots in the United States Intelligence Community and National Security Agency. Sqrrl was involved in the creation of, and actively contributes to Apache Accumulo and other related Apache projects. Sqrrl’s primary product is its threat hunting platform, designed for active detection of advanced persistent threats.
Nexor Limited is a privately held company based in Nottingham, providing product and services to safeguard government, defence and critical national infrastructure computer systems. It was originally known as X-Tel Services Limited.
The cyber security community in the United Kingdom is diverse, with many stakeholders groups contributing to support the UK Cyber Security Strategy. The following is a list of some of these stakeholders.
SWIPSY was a firewall toolkit produced by the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency in the UK. The SWIPSY toolkit was an ITSEC E3 evaluated product that allowed additional code to be added to its security ‘compartments’ without affecting the evaluation status of the toolkit itself.
Lucideus is an international enterprise cybersecurity company. The name Lucideus is derived from Lucifer (Satan) and Deus (God), as they are in the business of hacking for good.
AT&T Cybersecurity is a developer of commercial and open source services to manage cyber attacks, including the Open Threat Exchange, the world's largest crowd-sourced computer-security platform. In July 2017, the platform had 65,000 participants who contributed more than 14 million threat indicators daily. The company has raised $116 million since it was founded as AlienVault in 2007. On July 10, 2018, it was acquired by AT&T Communications, becoming a wholly owned subsidiary when the transaction was completed on August 22, 2018. In February 2019, AlienVault was renamed AT&T Cybersecurity.
Clearswift is an information security company based in the UK. It offers cyber-security services to protect business's data from internal and external threats.
UpGuard Inc. is an Australian cybersecurity startup company founded by Alan Sharp-Paul, Leo Venegas, and Mike Baukes; and presently based in Mountain View, California. UpGuard provides products and services to help companies stand up securely configured systems and guard against outages and breaches. In 2016, the company raised $17m in a series B funding round. As of 2018, the company employs around 46.
