DSD HP Certification
Earthwave has certified its Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) to the level of DSD Highly Protected (HP). The SIG was purpose build from bottom-up to meet the DSD HP requirements and has proven to be a major success in offering a wide range of network security services to connected clients.
The overall SIG policies, design and management criteria was derived from the DSD HP mandatory requirements in conjunction with a formal risk and threat assessment program that:
- Identified the SIG assets
- Identified threats and occurrence probability for each asset
- Estimated harm of each threat to each asset
- Calculated resulting risk and required risk for each threat
- Rated countermeasure priority for each threat
- Treated risks
