OVAL Awarded CVE Compatibility Certificate

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 — The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE) Program today presented its first Certificates of Compatibility during an awards ceremony at the 13th Annual RSA Conference in San Francisco. MITRE's Open Vulnerabilities and Assessment Language (OVAL) initiative was among the recipients.

The presenter was Mr. John Payton, Incident Response Manager for the National Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), Department of Homeland Security.

In the four years that CVE (the common naming standard for vulnerabilities within the information security industry) has been in the public domain, more than 90 organizations (representing over 130 products and services) have declared their intent to become CVE compatible. OVAL is one of 14 products from 10 organizations that have passed the final and most rigorous phase of the compatibility process, and received certificates.

According to Mr. Payton, "This group comes from a pool of nearly 100 organizations that are pursuing compatibility. We congratulate these recipients, and look forward to seeing more organizations and their products qualify for inclusion in this select group."

"We're excited at the rate that industry is adopting the CVE naming standard," added Bob Martin, MITRE CVE Compatibility Lead. "In addition to the organizations that have publicly declared support for the CVE naming standard on the CVE web site, we've identified over 100 other organizations from around the world that are actively working to incorporate CVE support into their capabilities."

Accepting the Open Vulnerabilities Assessment Language (OVAL) award is Drew Buttner (second from left), OVAL team member and MITRE Senior Infosec Engineer. The award was presented by Mr. John Payton (3rd from left). Also present are members of the MITRE OVAL and CVE initiatives (l-r): Bob Martin, CVE Compatibility Lead; Steve Christey, CVE Editor; Margie Zuk, CVE Project Leader; Pete Tasker, Executive Director of MITRE's Information Security Division; and Julie Connolly, OVAL team member.

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