What Does National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) Mean?

Techopedia Explains National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP)

The CCEVS is responsible for looking at security evaluations conducted by the Common Criteria Testing Laboratories (CCTLs), which are approved by CCEVS, and issuing common criteria certificates for those products. When an IT product receives the certificate and the validation report accompanying it, this indicates the product received an evaluation at a laboratory accredited using the common evaluation methodology to conform to the common criteria.