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CRT Testing

The ISA/IEC 62443-4-1 standard requires the product supplier to perform Communication Robustness Testing (CRT) as a normative requirement for compliance with the standard. CRT testing ensures a system is robust against network attacks. The certification body does not independently repeat these tests as part of the product assessment during a certification engagement.

VIT Testing

The certification body does perform one type of test as part of their product assessment: Vulnerability Identification Testing (VIT) using the Tenable Nessus scanning tool. This is a quick and inexpensive test. The purpose of Vulnerability Identification Testing (VIT) is to scan the device under test (DUT) with a commercially available tool to identify known vulnerabilities. The device supplier must correct known vulnerabilities discovered during the VIT scan to meet the ISASecure product certification requirements.

The ISASecure program uses the US-CERT National Vulnerability Database (NVDB) as the reference list for identifying known vulnerabilities, providing objectivity and transparency for the ISASecure assessment process. Known vulnerabilities in the US-CERT NVDB are organized into globally accepted Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) categories and the NVDB is updated on an ongoing basis as new vulnerabilities are identified and verified.

The VIT test is run when devices are evaluated for ISASecure certification, and the time and date of the scan is recorded. This allows the suppliers and end-users to know which NVDB vulnerabilities were included in the scan.

ISASecure recommends end-users require their suppliers to re-run the VIT during factory acceptance testing (FAT) and site acceptance testing (SAT). These procurement steps ensure new vulnerabilities that may have been discovered and added to the US-CERT NVDB during the time interval between the ISASecure certification VIT scan date and commissioning date are identified.

Information about the US-CERT NVDB may be found on the United States NIST website at: http://nvd.nist.gov

Information about the CWE categories may be found on the NIST website at: http://nvd.nist.gov/cwe.cfm

Test Tools

Many test tools are available for both VIT testing and CRT testing. A few of the tools are listed below. This list is not exhaustive and is not intended as an endorsement.

Winisec
Beijing Winicssec Technologies Co.Ltd.

Room 901, Building F, Jiahua Building, Shangdi 3rd Street
Haidian District, Beijing, China

Contact
Phone number: 4000-680-620
Email: support@winicssec.com
Website: www.winicssec.com 

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Beijing Xinlian Kehui Technology Co., LTD

Room 313, Building 2, No. 28 Zhenxing Road
Science Park Changping District, Beijing

Contact
Phone number: 0086 10 85926718
Email: xlkh@xlkh.com.cn
Website: www.xlkh.com.cn 

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Beyond Security, Inc

2267 Lava Ridge Ct.
Roseville, CA 95661

Contact
Email: sales@beyondsecurity.com

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CNCERT/CC

(National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China)

No. A3 Yumin Road
Chaoyang District, Beijing

Contact
Phone number: 0086 10 82990212
Email: zhangxiaoming@cert.org.cn
Website: www.cert.org.cn 

hitachi
Hitachi Systems

1-2-1, Osaki Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
141-8672 Japan


Contact
Phone number: +81-3-5435-5537
Email: ravenes@ml.hitachi-systems.com
Website: www.hitachi-systems.com

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Synopsys, Inc.

185 Berry Street, Suite 6500
San Francisco, CA 94107 USA

US (800) 873-8193
International +1 (415) 321-5237


Contact
Chris Clark
Email: clarkc@synopsys.com
Website: www.synopsys.com/software 

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Tenable Network Security
World Headquarters
7021 Columbia Gateway Drive
Suite 50
Columbia, MD 21046

North America: +1 (410) 872-0555
LATAM: +1 (4403) 545-2278
EMEA Headquarters
8 The Square
Stockley Park, Uxbridge
Middlesex, UB11 1FW
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0) 203-178-4247
APAC Headquarters
600 North Bridge Road
#09-06 Parkview Square
Singapore 188778

Phone: +65-67186750
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Wurldtech Security Technologies

Suite 2000 - 1055 Dunsmuir St.
PO Box 49133
Vancouver, BC V7X 1J1 Canada

Contact
Phone: (604) 669-6674
Fax: (604) 669-2902
Email: sales@wurldtech.com
Website: www.wurldtech.com

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