ZTE Corporation has been awarded the ISO 15408 Common Criteria Certificate for its GSM equipment. This is currently the highest level of security certification for telecommunication equipment.
The certification is managed by the national security agency of each CC member-state. There are 26 member-states, including European nations, the US and Japan, as well as emerging countries such as India. The CC certification includes the evaluation of technologies such as security performance, loophole analysis, encryption technology and product manual.
It also includes systematic evaluations of the entire process from R&D procedure and configuration management to production and shipping.