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2003 Survivor's Guide to Security

December 15, 2002
By Mike Fratto

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Standards

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CISSP: Not really a standard, but an industrywide certification that indicates the bearer has in-depth knowledge of multiple security principles.

Common Criteria: Common Criteria provides certification for specifically named and configured systems and subsystems against a given set of requirements. The value is not necessarily in the certification, but in the public technical documents detailing the product's design and testing.

ISO 17799: An international standard that describes and details policies and procedures ranging from business continuity to physical and network security and security policies.

SAML: Security Association Markup Language is an XML-based standard that lets Web services exchange authentication and access control data seamlessly. Version 1.0 was approved by OASIS on Nov. 6.