It's simple. To turn information security into a competitive advantage.

When your organization becomes Cybertrust Certified, you are doing more than just following the industry's most mature and effective Certification Program. You are gaining a critical competitive advantage that enables you to:

• Secure your organization, and its reputation.
• Increase the confidence of your customers and partners.
• Identify weaknesses in the infrastructure before they are exploited.
• Reduce the costs, time and resources associated with after-the-fact remediation activities.
• Unequivocally demonstrate that your organization's security controls align with regulations and standards.
• Transform the "grudge spend" of information security into a strategic business initiative–with measurable results.
• Gain greater credibility of your organization's ongoing security and compliance management efforts–internally and externally.
• Attract more business with the industry-leading symbol of security assurance.
• Third party validation by security experts.
  

Cybertrust Certifications
Formerly TruSecure Certifications, all Cybertrust Certification programs are offered through our Security Management Program (SMP), a comprehensive, recurring risk reduction and certification program. For more information about our Security Management Program, click here.

Enterprise Certification

Cybertrust SMP Enterprise Certification addresses all aspects of proactive information security at a single location or across your enterprise. The achievement of Cybertrust SMP Enterprise Certification demonstrates that an organization has met or exceeded security requirements in five critical control areas (policy, human, physical, device, network).

Requirements include:

• Documentation and implementation of information security policies and standards.
• Implementation of appropriate security controls.
• Mitigation of high-severity vulnerabilities on critical systems in the external, DMZ and LAN environments.
• Conservative configuration of wireless access points.
• Implementation of default deny and appropriate e-mail filtering for external perimeter.
• Procedure to address anomalies in devices, wireless and analog phones lines.
• Implementation of current anti-virus signatures and password-protected terminals.

Perimeter Certification

Cybertrust SMP Perimeter Certification provides a recurring risk reduction program that addresses the security of your organization's external networks and devices, and helps you maintain an optimal security posture across your boundary environment. The achievement of the Cybertrust SMP Perimeter Certification demonstrates that an organization has met or exceeded the following security requirements:

• Documentation and implementation of information security policies and standards.
• Implementation of appropriate security controls.
• Mitigation of high-severity vulnerabilities on critical systems in the external and DMZ environments.
• Implementation of default deny and appropriate email filtering for external perimeter.
• Procedure to address anomalies in devices and networks.

Application Certification

Cybertrust Application Certification requires a Cybertrust Perimeter or an Enterprise Certification. Different components of your applications may be tested each quarter to ensure full certification of the entire application. Findings from previous quarters are retested to ensure they have been mitigated. For a full list of our Application security offerings, click here.