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JC-STAR-Scheme Documentation [Basics]

Last Updated:Sep 30, 2024

Labeling Scheme based on Japan Cyber-Security Technical Assessment Requirements (JC-STAR) Scheme Documentation

The following documents explain the Scheme Document, Organization and Operational Manual, Requirements for the applicant, Guidance on application procedures and Operating procedures in this Scheme.

Please note that the English version is a tentative translation, and the original is the Japanese version. In the event of any discrepancies between the Japanese and English versions, the Japanese version takes precedence.

For all relevant parties under this Scheme

Document
Overview

This Scheme Document prescribes the Labeling Scheme based on Japan Cyber-Security Technical Assessment Requirements (JC-STAR) operated by the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan and basic matters related to this Scheme that need to be complied with mainly by suppliers, users of IoT products, and personnel engaged in the operation of this Scheme pursuant to the Act on Facilitation of Information Processing, and in accordance with the aim of ensuring the security and reliability of information processing from a technical perspective.

Contents
  • Purpose of this Scheme Document
  • Definition of Terms
  • Participants in the Scheme
  • Conformance Labels through Self-declaration
  • Conformance Labels through Conformance Assessment/Evaluation and Certification
  • Surveillance or Revocation of Conformance Labels
  • Confidentiality

For Certification Body

Document
Overview

This Operational Manual prescribes policies and procedures for operation of organization, certification, and conformance label-issuing services necessary for conducting services as the Certification Body and Label-issuing Body in accordance with the "Labeling Scheme based on Japan Cyber-Security Technical Assessment Requirements (JC-STAR) Scheme Document (JSS-01)," in which Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA) prescribes the Labeling Scheme based on Japan Cyber-Security Technical Assessment Requirements (JC-STAR).

Contents
  • Purpose of this Scheme Document
  • Definition of Terms
  • Certification and Conformity Label-issuing Services
  • Certification Services and Conformance Label-issuing Services through Conformance Assessment/Evaluation and Certification
  • Common Operations of Services
Document
Overview
  • The purpose of this Operating Procedure is to prescribe the necessary operating procedure for the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan to properly operate the committees and working groups established as advisory bodies for operating certification and conformance label-issuing services as the Certification Body and the Label-issuing Body under the Labeling Scheme based on Japan Cyber-Security Technical Assessment Requirements, based on the "Organization and Operational Manual for Certification Body and Label-issuing Body under Labeling Scheme based on Japan Cyber-Security Technical Assessment Requirements (JSM-01)."
Contents
  • Procedure for Operations of Management Committee
  • Procedure for Operations of Technical Committee

Change log

  • Sep 30, 2024

    • It is newly released.