Les agréments, certifications, intercomparaisons

Building Certifications Paths: Forward vs. Reverse

In general, building and validating a certification path connecting a trust anchor to a target can be a very timeconsuming process. As such, any optimizations are valuable. Certification paths are commonly built from the target to the trust anchor (“building in the forward direction”) or from the trust anchor to the target (“building in the reverse direction”). This paper presents a comparison ...

IT Security Certifications: Stakeholder Evaluation and Selection

Information technology (IT) security certifications have proliferated in recent years. However they differ in regards to stakeholder considerations of credibility, accessibility and relevance. Key stakeholders with an interest in selecting an IT security certification (IT security professionals, employers, governments and higher education institutes) lack a systematic approach for differentiati...

ACTraversal: Ranking Crowdsourced Commonsense Assertions and Certifications

Building commonsense knowledge bases is a challenging undertaking. While we have witnessed the successful collection of large amounts of commonsense knowledge by either automatic text mining or games with a purpose (GWAP), such data are of limited precision. Verifying data is typically done with repetition, which works better for very large data sets. Our research proposes a novel approach to d...

Making Sense of Smart Card Security Certifications

Manufacturers and producers of smart card systems are all beginning to climb on the certification bandwagon. In this paper, we analyse the current state of smart card certifications and present arguments as to why smart card certifications may not be all they seem. We discuss certifications issued under the ITSEC and Common Criteria and analyse shortcomings and inconsistencies that appear to ex...

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