The Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) DNS Resource Record allows a DNS domain name holder to specify one or more Certification Authorities (CAs) authorized to issue certificates for that domain. CAA Resource Records allow a public Certification Authority to implement additional controls to reduce the risk of unintended certificate mis-issue. This document defines the syntax of the CAA...

Government of Indonesia held a certification program to enhance the professionalism of teachers by using portfolio assessment. This research discusses about the effectiveness of certification programs to enhance the professionalism of teacher in Indonesia. Portfolio assessment method has drawbacks. The certified teachers do not show significant performance improvement. Therefore, the government...

Many countries are using certification procedures to guarantee the full compliance of e-voting mechanisms with democratic standards, but the data generated by these analysis is normally handled almost secretly. Given that transparency is a key principle to guarantee citizen's confidence in the electoral process, this opacity would only be acceptable after a correct balance of the concurrent int...

1 What the book is about The major topic of this book is the rationale behind applying software security certifications (e.g. Common Criteria) to open source systems. At first glance, this seems to be a contradiction, because a security certification is usually given to a specific release of a specific software configuration, sometimes even only if running on a specific hardware or for a specif...

BACKGROUND A recent report highlights the need for clear standards of practice regarding working-age health. Despite this, little is known about training or performance of sickness certification by junior doctors in secondary care. AIMS To see what sickness certification training had been received by practising hospital postgraduate trainees and establish how confident and knowledgeable they ...

This paper describes a process of dual certification for software that meets both FAA safety requirements and NIST/NSA security requirements. The commercial avionics industry depends on RTCA DO-178B, for software assurance while security products are evaluated according to the Common Criteria. The two sets of requirements from DO-178B and the Common Criteria are assessed for similarity of funct...