technology products for conformance to the International Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation.

CCEVS certification is based on meeting a set of security functional and assurance requirements defined for high-performance information and software technologies. Windows XP joins Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003, which are also currently under evaluation.

According to Microsoft, Windows 2000 was the first Microsoft desktop and server software product to be submitted for CCEVS certification, and it was recently awarded Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL4) certification, for a PC distributed operating system.

Further details on CCEVS are available on their Web site. Information on products currently being evaluated CCEVS is available on the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) website, here -- click the W in the page navigation to locate the Windows products.