ISO 15292, "Information technology – Security techniques – Protection Profile registration procedures" establishes an international registry (operated by AFNOR

AFNOR

Association française de Normalisation is the French national organization for standardization and its International Organization for Standardization member body....

) for Protection Profile

Protection Profile

A Protection Profile is a document used as part of the certification process according to the Common Criteria . As the generic form of a Security Target , it is typically created by a user or user community and provides an implementation independent specification of information assurance security...

s and packages used in computer security evaluation under the Common Criteria

Common Criteria

The Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation is an international standard for computer security certification...

 framework. The format of these profiles and packages is as specified in ISO 15408.

ISO 15292 assigns registered Protection Profiles and packages labels of the form:
"Entry Type-registration Year-registration Number", for example PP-2003-0001.

External links

• Link to ISO store page with the document, retrieved on August 9, 2008.