Revisiting the analysis of references among Common Criteria certified products
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14330%2F25%3A00140579" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14330/25:00140579 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167404825000513" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167404825000513</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2025.104362" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.cose.2025.104362</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Revisiting the analysis of references among Common Criteria certified products
Original language description
With almost six thousand security certificates for IT products and systems, the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation has bred an ecosystem entangled with various kinds of relations between the certified products. Yet, the prevalence and nature of dependencies among Common Criteria-certified products remain largely unexplored. This study devises a novel method for building the graph of references among the Common Criteria certified products, determining the different contexts of references with a supervised machine-learning algorithm, and measuring how often the references constitute actual dependencies between the certified products. With the help of the resulting reference graph, this work identifies just a dozen of certified components that are relied on by at least 10% of the whole ecosystem – making them a prime target for malicious actors. The impact of their compromise is assessed, and potentially problematic references to archived products are discussed. Processing of all public certificate artifacts additionally provides insights into the dynamics of the whole certification ecosystem in time, including the popularity of categories, average assurance levels, length of validity periods, the adoption rate of selected cryptographic algorithms, and cross-referencing among national schemes.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Computers & Security
ISSN
0167-4048
e-ISSN
1872-6208
Volume of the periodical
152
Issue of the periodical within the volume
104362
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
1-10
UT code for WoS article
001428236300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85217920512