Common Criteria for Information Techonology Security Evaluation is an international standard (ISO/IEC 15408) for computer security certification. Common Criteria is developed by the governments of Canada, France, Germany, Netherland, UK and the United States.
Adaptive Server version 15.0.1 completed Common Criteria validation in September, 2007. The Evaluated configuration consists of Adaptive Server version 15.0.1 with the security and directory services option. The Adaptive Server evaluation for security was carried out in accordance with the Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS) process and scheme. The criteria against which the Adaptive Server Enterprise was judged are described in the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation, Version 2.3 and International Interpretations effective on August, 2005. If you configure Adaptive Server as specified in the Supplement for Installing Adaptive Server for Common Criteria Configuration, Adaptive Server satisfies all of the security functional requirements stated in the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise Security Target (Version 1.5).
Adaptive Server supports eight security functions:
Cryptographic support – Adaptive Server supports transparent encryption of data at the column level. SQL statements and extensions provide secure key management.
Security audit – an audit mechanism that checks access, authentication attempts, and administrator functions. The security audit records the date, time, responsible individual, and other details describing the event in the audit trail.
User data protection – Adaptive Server implements the discretionary access control policy over applicable database objects: databases, tables, views, stored procedures, and encryption keys.
Identification and authentication – Adaptive Server provides its own identification and authentication mechanism in addition to the underlying operating system mechanism.
Security management – functions that allow you to manage users and associated privileges, access permissions, and other security functions such as the audit trail. These functions are restricted based on discretionary access control policy rules, including role restrictions.
Protection of the TOE Security Function (TSF) – Adaptive Server keeps its context separate from that of its users, and uses operating system mechanisms to ensure that memory and files used by Adaptive Server have the appropriate access settings. Adaptive Server interacts with users through well-defined interfaces designed to ensure that its security policies are enforced.
Resource utilization – Adaptive Server provides resource limits to prevent queries and transactions from monopolizing server resources.
Target of Evaluation (TOE) access – Adaptive Server allows authorized administrators to construct login triggers that restrict logins to a specific number of sessions and restrict access based on time. Authorized administrators can also restrict access based on user identities.
