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Analyse of the security architecture and policy model in the Common Criteria |
| SHI Hongsong, GAO Jinping, JIA Wei, LIU Hui |
| China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center, Beijing 100085, China |
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Abstract The Common Criteria (CC) does not adequately explain the security architecture and policy model requirements which hinders security evaluations. This paper classifies the requirements through a general CC evaluation model based on design decomposition. The analysis then categorizes the TOE security functionality (TSF) as the TSF meta-functionality and the TSF obligatory functionality to demonstrate the need for justifying the security properties in the architecture design. Then, security architecture description and evaluation approaches are described for vulnerability analysis activity. Then, this paper describes the need for formalizing the security policy model based on observations of the logical gap between the security target (ST) and the functional specification (FSP) requirements. A (semi-) formalization of the security functional requirements is given to bridge the gap. The national standard GB/T18336 (the Chinese version of CC v3.1) will be adopted soon in China, so the analysis in this paper is needed to improve security evaluation activities.
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Common Criteria
security architecture
TSF meta- functionality
TSF obligatory functionality
security policy model
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Issue Date: 15 May 2016
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