Chapter 13

Common Criteria EAL2 Compliance

This chapter includes the following topics:

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Common Criteria EAL2 Compliance

Table 21 on page 63Table 21 on page 63 provides guidelines you must observe to deploy and use the IDP appliance in compliance with the Common Criteria EAL2. In addition, you must observe compliance guidelines for Network and Security Manager (NSM), listed in the Network and Security Manager Administration Guide.

Table 21: Common Criteria EAL2 Compliance

Category

Guidelines

Intended

The IDP appliance must be connected to the network from which IT systems

Usage

are to be monitored to collect data or to prevent certain data from passing

 

to or from IT systems.

 

The IDP appliance must be appropriately scalable to the IT system that it

 

monitors.

 

The IDP appliance must be managed in a manner that allows it to address

 

changes in the IT system that it monitors.

 

The IDP appliance, the NSM device server and GUI server, and the NSM UI

 

must be installed on dedicated systems. These dedicated systems must

 

not contain user processes that are not required to operate the IDP system.

Personnel

There must be one or more authorized individuals assigned to manage the

 

IDP appliance, NSM, and the security of the information that they contain.

 

The authorized administrators must not be careless, willfully negligent, or

 

hostile and must follow and abide by the instructions provided by the IDP

 

appliance, NSM, and UI documentation.

 

The IDP appliance and NSM must be accessed only by authorized users.

Physical

The processing resources of the IDP appliance, the NSM server, and the NSM

Protection

UI must be located within facilities with controlled access that prevents

 

unauthorized physical access.

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