When procuring high assurance information technology (IT) equipment, ASD is contacted for any equipment-specific delivery procedures.
Topic
Delivery of evaluated products
Applicable to
Secret, Top Secret
History
Priority
must
Jun 2024
When procuring high assurance information technology (IT) equipment, ASD is contacted for any equipment-specific delivery procedures.
References to high assurance ICT equipment were amended to high assurance IT equipment.
Sep 2023
When procuring high assurance ICT equipment, ASD is contacted for any equipment-specific delivery procedures.
References to ‘ACSC’ were replaced with ‘ASD’.
Dec 2021
When procuring high assurance ICT equipment, the ACSC is contacted for any equipment-specific delivery procedures.
Miscellaneous changes were made to rationale and security controls throughout the publication. This included:
• A review from the Using the Information Security Manual chapter through to the Guidelines for Media chapter.
• Security controls suitable for all audiences have been identified with the ‘All’ applicability marking while additional security controls suitable for just government audiences have been identified with the O, P, S and TS applicability markings.
• Security controls suitable for specific classifications have been amended to include their classification(s) in the wording of the security controls to reduce the reliance on applicability markings to confer suitability.
• Tables in security controls have been converted into prose to allow for inclusion in the SSP annex template and the XML list of security controls.
• The use of ‘official’ and ‘highly classified’ terminology has been replaced with specific classifications to remove ambiguity.
• Security controls relating to high assurance ICT equipment have had their applicability narrowed to ‘S, TS’ reflecting that they are intended for the protection of SECRET and TOP SECRET systems and data.
2015
Agencies procuring High Assurance products must contact ASD and comply with any productspecific delivery procedures.
2010
Agencies procuring high assurance products and HGCE must contact DSD and comply with any productspecific delivery procedures.