User:Whigaki/Common Criteria Vendor's Forum

The Common Criteria Vendors’ Forum is an informal group of commercial product vendor company representatives gathered to discuss Common Criteria and Common Criteria-related issues, develop solutions and drive action to improve the Common Criteria. They accomplish this by creating awareness of the issues and to provide a single voice as a vendor community to the standards bodies and policy makers.

The Common Criteria (CC) product evaluation process has proven to be complex and burdensome to many commercial vendors. While many government customers around the world recognize, recommend and sometimes require CC evaluations, product vendors have a difficult time justifying the time and effort investments necessary to meet the evaluation requirements. Moreover, CC certifications are not recognized as adding value to many customers; especially non-government customers because the standards do not focus on security issues that most commercial customers care about. It also fails to recognize the efforts vendors put forward to mitigate and reduce the number of code vulnerabilities in their products. The Common Criteria Vendors’ Forum was created to unify the “voice of the vendors” to influence the standards and policy makers.