Noggin's OCA Incident Manager gains EAL2+ certification

Stephen Withers
Thursday, 08 July 2010 11:34

Business IT - Security

An Australian company has become the first in the world to offer incident management software certified to Common Criteria EAL2+.

Sydney-based Noggin develops business applications for a variety of sectors. Its OCA Incident Manager software has become the only piece of incident and emergency software to be certified to Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ under the Common Criteria standard.

"Concerns about IT security issues are soaring world-wide. This certification immediately gives OCA an internationally respected accreditation, positioning it as a thoroughly tested and approved software," said managing director James Boddam-Whetham.

"As the only product in the world to achieve this level of certification in this sector, we anticipate significant demand from both commercial and government agencies facing a need for secure emergency management, counter terrorism and critical infrastructure programs," he added.

EAL2+ evaluation was carried out by Stratsec.

"Compliance with EAL2+ demonstrates that OCA has passed stringent security evaluations, and also has processes in place to fix and securely distribute any security patches if required. This makes it the only software of its kind to have reached this level," said Stratsec COO Doug Stuart.

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