Certificación

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certificación

Documento en que se asegura la verdad de un hecho.

DRAE. Diccionario de la Lengua Española.

Certificación

Emisión de un certificado que acredita la Conformidad con un Estándar. La Certificación incluye una Auditoría formal realizada por un organismo independiente y Acreditado. El término Certificación también se usa para denotar la concesión de un certificado que acredita que una persona ha logrado una cualificación determinada. [ITIL:2007]

Certificación de la Seguridad

Determinación positiva de que un producto o sistema tiene capacidad para proteger la información según un nivel de seguridad y de acuerdo a unos criterios establecidos en el procedimiento o metodología de evaluación correspondiente.

Certificación

Confirmación del resultado de una evaluación, y que los criterios de evaluación utilizados fueron correctamente aplicados. [Magerit:2012]

Certificación

Emisión de un informe formal confirmando el resultado de una evaluación, así como qu4e el criterio de evaluación usado ha sido correctamente aplicado (ITSEC).

Esta certificación es. O será en el caso de algunos países, emitida por la Institución de Certificación de cada país, y se pretende tenga validez en todos los de la Unión Europea.

[Ribagorda:1997]

Certificación

1. (notarization) Mecanismo de seguridad por el que una Autoridad de Certificación asegura la integridad, origen, tiempo o destino de una comunicación.

2. Confirmación del resultado de una evaluación, y que los criterios de evaluación utilizados fueron correctamente aplicados.

[CESID:1997]

(en) certification

Comprehensive evaluation of the technical and non-technical security safeguards of an information system to support the accreditation process that establishes the extent to which a particular design and implementation meets a set of specified security requirements. See security control assessment. [CNSSI_4009:2010]

(en) certification

1. (I) /information system/ Comprehensive evaluation (usually made in support of an accreditation action) of an information system's technical security features and other safeguards to establish the extent to which the system's design and implementation meet a set of specified security requirements. [C4009, FP102, SP37] (See: accreditation. Compare: evaluation.)

2. (I) /digital certificate/ The act or process of vouching for the truth and accuracy of the binding between data items in a certificate. (See: certify.)

3. (I) /PKI/ The act or process of vouching for the ownership of a public key by issuing a public-key certificate that binds the key to the name of the entity that possesses the matching private key. Besides binding a key with a name, a public-key certificate may bind those items with other restrictive or explanatory data items. (See: X.509 public-key certificate.)

[RFC4949:2007]

(en) certification

in the context of this document, the process, producing written results, of performing a comprehensive evaluation of security features and other safeguards of a system to establish the extent to which the design and implementation meet a set of specified security requirements.

NOTE. This definition is generally accepted within the security community; within ISO the more generally used definition is: Procedure by which a third party gives written assurance that a product, process or service conforms to specified requirements [ISO/IEC Guide 2].

[ISO-21827:2007]

(en) Certification

Issuing a certificate to confirm Compliance to a Standard. Certification includes a formal Audit by an independent and Accredited body. The term Certification is also used to mean awarding a certificate to verify that a person has achieved a qualification. [ITIL:2007]

(en) Certification

A comprehensive assessment of the management, operational, and technical security controls in an information system, made in support of security accreditation, to determine the extent to which the controls are implemented correctly, operating as intended, and producing the desired outcome with respect to meeting the security requirements for the system. [NIST-SP800-53:2013] [FIPS-200:2006] [NIST-SP800-37:2004]

(en) What is security certification?

Security certification is a comprehensive assessment of the management, operational, and technical security controls in an information system, made in support of security accreditation, to determine the extent to which the controls are implemented correctly, operating as intended, and producing the desired outcome with respect to meeting the security requirements for the system. The results of a security certification are used to reassess the risks and update the system security plan, thus providing the factual basis for an authorizing official to render a security accreditation decision. [NIST-SP800-100:2006]

(en) Certification

the issue of a formal statement confirming the results of an evaluation, and that the evaluation criteria used were correctly applied. [ITSEC:1991]

(en) Certification

The technical evaluation of a system's security features, made as part of and in support of the approval/accreditation process, that establishes the extent to which a particular computer system's design and implementation meet a set of specified security requirements. [TCSEC:1985]

(fr) Certification

Publier un certificat pour valider la conformité à un standard. La certification comporte un audit formel réalisé par une structure indépendante et accréditée. Le terme Certification signifie également décerner un certificat pour valider la qualification d’une personne. [ITIL:2007]

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