Compatibility Questionnaire: ThreatGuard (Secutor Prime) — Archive
Important: The OVAL Compatibility Program was moved to "archive" status in December 2009, and replaced with the "OVAL Adoption Program." Under the OVAL Adoption Program product validation is performed by an external organization, allowing the OVAL Team to focus on educating vendors on best practices regarding the use and implementation OVAL and on how OVAL can continue to evolve as needed by the community.
Refer to the OVAL Adoption Program section for addition information and to review all products and services listed.
Organizational Information
Name of Your Organization:
Web Site:
Product Information
Product/Service Name:
Compatible Categories:
OVAL Systems Characteristics Consumer (Planned) OVAL Definition Consumer
OVAL Results Producer
OVAL Results Consumer (Planned)
Product/Service Home Page:
Product Accessibility
Language Version Indication
The Secutor Prime application will show the OVAL Schema version used in the "About" screen. This is accessed Help drop-down menu off the Secutor Prime menu bar.
Approach for Correction of Errors
We accept email notification of such errors. In response, we work with the reporter (where necessary) to recreate the target environment and thus recreate the error.
We apply the fix, perform regression testing across our test lab, then distribute the fix (new software or revised definition) via our centralized live-update system. All Internet-connected installations will download and install the update the next time it is instatiated. Clients with installations on closed networks can receive an update CD. Other arrangements can be made as necessary.
Compatibility Documentation
From the Secutor Prime User's Guide
About OVAL
Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL) is an international, information security community baseline standard for how to check for the presence of vulnerabilities and configuration issues on computer systems. OVAL standardizes the three main steps of the process: collecting system characteristics and configuration information from systems for testing; testing the systems for the presence of specific vulnerabilities, configuration issues, and/or patches; and presenting the results of the tests.
For more information on the OVAL project, please reference "http://oval.mitre.org/about/". Details about OVAL-Compatibility can be found at "http://oval.mitre.org/compatible/index.html".
Language Support
ThreatGuard supports all schemas.
Finding Elements Using OVAL
From the Secutor Prime User's Guide
Finding Tests by OVAL ID
The Secutor Prime find feature allows you to search for test definitions by OVAL ID. The Tools menu has a Find menu option that displays the Find dialog. To search for an OVAL ID, use the Tools --> Settings --> Assessment dialog to load vulnerabilities and set them to "Display as OVAL ID". Then in the Find dialog, enter the OVAL ID in the "Search For:" field, ensure the "Title" box is checked, and click the "Next" or "Previous" button. This will find any loaded vulnerability definition that matches your search string.
OVAL Content Importation Process Explanation
Statement of Compatibility
Have an authorized individual sign and date the following Compatibility Statement (required):
"As an authorized representative of my organization I agree that we will abide by all of the mandatory compatibility requirements as well as all of the additional mandatory compatibility requirements that are appropriate for our specific type of capability."
Name: | Robert L. Hollis | |
Title: | Director of Product Development |
Statement of Accuracy
Have an authorized individual sign and date the following accuracy Statement (recommended):
"As an authorized representative of my organization and to the best of my knowledge, there are no errors in the correctness of our capability's use of the OVAL Language and the interpretation of the logic."
Name: | Robert L. Hollis | |
Title: | Director of Product Development |
Statement on Follow-on Correctness Testing Support
Have an authorized individual sign and date the following statement about your organizations willingness to support correctness testing of other capabilities, which will be managed by the Reviewing Authority and kept to reasonable levels of effort for all involved. (required):
"As an authorized representative of my organization, we agree to support the Review Authority in follow-on correctness testing activities, where appropriate types of OVAL documents might need to be exchanged with other organizations attempting to prove the correctness of their capabilities."
Name: | Robert L. Hollis | |
Title: | Director of Product Development |
Page Last Updated: December 17, 2009