A certified product is one that a recognized Certification Body asserts as having been evaluated by a laboratory competent in the field of IT security evaluation to the requirements of the Common Criteria and Common Evaluations Methodology for Information Technology Security Evaluation.
A Common Criteria certificate must always be accompanied by a certification report, which contains important information about the evaluation as well as information about using the product securely. It must also be accompanied by a Security Target, which provides detailed information on the evaluated security properties of the product.
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) is a signatory of the Arrangement on the recognition of Common Criteria Certificates (CCRA). This means that certificates awarded by CSE are also recognized by the other signatories of the CCRA - and vice versa.
The list below represents products which have been certified in Canada. The certification report, security target and Common Criteria certificate for each of these products may be found on the Common Criteria Portal, as well as a more complete listing of products which have received their Common Criteria certificates from other international partners.