Product Certifications

The Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation is an international standard for computer security certification. Common Criteria focuses on functionality related to product security and management services.

Gives evidence-based third-party assurance of information security split over five Trust Services Criteria evaluated using Common Criteria split into seven areas:

• Security
• Availability
• Processing integrity
• Confidentiality
• Privacy

Evaluated using Common Criteria covering the following areas:

• Organization and Management
• Communications
• Risk Management
• Monitoring of Controls
• Logical and Physical Access Controls
• System Operations
• Change Management

The CSA mark on a product means it has been tested against appliable North American standards requirements. CSA marks are found on a wide variety of North American products: electrical and electronic, gas-fired, personal protective equipment, and many more. CSA Group technical experts fully understand Canadian and U.S. requirements

NSS Labs, founded in 2007, was one of the most well-known product security testing companies, allowing customers to use real threat data to stress-test their products and discover potential vulnerabilities and security issues.

In ICSA’s Firewall Lab, they perform security testing against a significant number of the firewall products available on the market today. Only those firewall products that meet – and continue to meet – ICSA’s criteria requirements may display the ICSA Certified Firewall seal of approval.

ICSA Labs is the security industry’s central anti-malware product testing and certification facility. Here, one will always find those endpoint and network-based anti-malware products that are currently certified along with how they did during monthly testing.

Standard ICSA Labs Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) Certification Testing is aimed at both single and multi-component vendor solutions that protect enterprises from unknown and little-known malicious threats.  Whether or not the solution is at the endpoint, at the perimeter, in the cloud, a combination of these or something else altogether, ICSA Labs’ standard ATD Certification Testing aims to accommodate a variety of security vendor solutions in our testing.

NetSecOPEN, a membership driven network security industry group, was created in response to the need for more insightful, realistic, up to date and non-proprietary evaluation and certification practices. NetSecOPEN standards provide guidelines and best practices for testing modern network security infrastructure including Firewall, IPS, NGFW and Threat Detection solutions and services.

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) is an independent test facility that provides interoperability and standards conformance testing for networking, telecommunications, data storage, and consumer technology products. 

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Unified Capabilities Approved Product List (UC APL) defines what products are authorized to be deployed by the U.S. DoD.

The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2 is a cryptographic certification program jointly run by the US and Canadian governments.

SonicWall Firewalls are CSfC certified. The Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) Program enables commercial products to be used in layered solutions protecting classified NSS data.

A Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT™) is a document that explains how information and communication technology (ICT) products such as software, hardware, electronic content, and support documentation meet (conform to) the Revised 508 Standards for IT accessibility.

SonicWall appliances conform to IPv6 Ready Logo Phase 2 Core test specifications as a router product. IPv6 readiness provides confidence in environments running IPv6 networks or IPv4 networks being transitioned to the new IPv6 protocol.