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        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Secure Elements Issues News Release Announcing Receipt of Q1-2008 OVAL Repository Top Contributor Award</title>
                  <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080515a</link>
                  <description>OVAL was the main topic of an April 30, 2008 news release by Secure Elements Receives OVAL Repository Top Contributor Award for Advancing Open Information Security Content Standard.</description>
                  <pubDate>Thur, 15 May 2008 9:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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                  <title>OVAL Developer Days 2008 Slides Now Available</title>
                  <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080515b</link>
                  <description>Briefing slides from this year&#8217;s OVAL Developer Days conference held on April 28-29, 2008 at MITRE Corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts, USA are now available on the OVAL Developer Days page.</description>
                  <pubDate>Thur, 15 May 2008 9:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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                  <title>MITRE Scheduled to Present &quot;Making Security Measurable&quot; Briefing and a Full-Day Tutorial at AusCERT 2008 on May 18-23</title>
                  <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080515c</link>
                  <description>CVE Compatibility Lead/CWE Project Manager Robert A. Martin and CVE Technical Lead/CWE CVE Technical Lead Steven M. Christey are scheduled to present a Making Security Measurable briefing and host a full-day Making Security Measurable tutorial at AusCERT 2008 on May 18-23, 2008 at Royal Pines Resort in Gold Coast, Australia.</description>
                  <pubDate>Thur, 15 May 2008 9:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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                  <title>MITRE Scheduled to Present &quot;Making Security Measurable&quot; Briefing at 4th Annual GFIRST Conferenceon June 2-4</title>
                  <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080515d</link>
                  <description>CVE Compatibility Lead/CWE Project Manager Robert A. Martin is scheduled to present a briefing about Making Security Measurable at the 4th Annual GFIRST Conference on June 2-4, 2008 at the Caribe Royale Hotel in Orlando, Florida, USA.</description>
                  <pubDate>Thur, 15 May 2008 9:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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                  <title>MITRE Scheduled to Host &quot;Making Security Measurable&quot; Booth at 2008 Cyberspace Symposium on June 16-19</title>
                  <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080515e</link>
                  <description>MITRE is scheduled to host a Making Security Measurable booth at the 2008 Cyberspace Symposium on June 16-19, 2008 at the Best Westin Royal Plaza Hotel and Trade Center in Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA.</description>
                  <pubDate>Thur, 15 May 2008 9:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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                  <title>MITRE Presents &quot;Making Security Measurable&quot; Briefing at 2008 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland on May 12-13</title>
                  <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080515f</link>
                  <description>CVE Compatibility Lead/CWE Project Manager Robert A. Martin presented a 2008 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland on May 12-13, 2008 at the Westin Hotel in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.</description>
                  <pubDate>Thur, 15 May 2008 9:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>MITRE Hosts OVAL Developer Days 2008 on April 28-29</title>
                  <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080501a</link>
       <description>The OVAL Team hosted this year’s OVAL Developer Days conference on April 28-29, 2008 at MITRE Corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts, USA.</description>
       <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 9:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>TMC y Cia Makes Declaration of OVAL Compatibility</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080501b</link>
       <description>TMC y Cia declared that its vulnerability analysis service, FAV - Falcon Analisis de Vulnerabilidades, is OVAL-Compatible.</description>
       <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 9:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>MITRE Presents &quot;Making Security Measurable&quot; Briefing at CSI Security Exchange 2008 on April 27</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080501c</link>
       <description>CVE Compatibility Lead/CWE Project Manager Robert A. Martin presented a Making Security Measurable briefing entitled &quot;Architecting Security Measurement and Management for Compliance&quot; at CSI Security Exchange 2008 on April 27, 2008 at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</description>
       <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 9:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>MITRE Presents  &quot;Making Security Measurable &quot; Briefing at GOVSEC on April 24</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080501d</link>
       <description>CVE Compatibility Lead/CWE Project Manager Robert A. Martin presented a Making Security Measurable briefing entitled &quot;Architecting Your IT Security Standards to Secure your Enterprise&quot; at GOVSEC on April 24, 2008 at Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., USA.</description>
       <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 9:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>MITRE Hosts &quot;Making Security Measurable&quot; Booth at RSA 2008, April 7-11</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080501e</link>
       <description>MITRE hosted a Making Security Measurable exhibitor booth at RSA 2008 on April 7-11, 2008 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, USA.</description>
       <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 9:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Version 5.4 of OVAL Now Available</title>
                  <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080410a</link>
       <description>Version 5.4 OVAL has been moved to the &quot;Official&quot; stage and is now available on the OVAL Language Releases page. The OVAL Interpreter, Interpreter Source Code, and Data Files on the SourceForge.net Web site at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ovaldi/ have also been updated.</description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Interpreter Updated for Version 5.4</title>
                  <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080410b</link>
       <description>The OVAL Interpreter has been updated to Version 5.4. Specific updates to the OVAL Interpreter included: addition of support for Version 5.4 of the OVAL Language and fixing some minor issues reported by the OVAL Community.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Version 5.4 in Release Candidate Stage</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080307a</link>
       <description>Version 5.4 of the OVAL Language is currently in the Release Candidate stage and is scheduled to be moved to the Official stage on March 28, 2008.</description>
       <pubDate>Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Mentioned in Government Computer News Article about SCAP</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080307b</link>
       <description>OVAL was mentioned in a March 3, 2008 article entitled &quot;SCAP narrows security gap&quot; in Government Computer News.</description>
       <pubDate>Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>MITRE to Host OVAL Developer Days 2008 on April 28-29</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080222a</link>
       <description>MITRE is scheduled to host our OVAL Developer Days conference on April 28-29, 2008 at MITRE Corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts, USA.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Lieberman Software Corporation Makes Declaration of OVAL Compatibility</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080222b</link>
       <description>Lieberman Software Corporation declared that its system security reporting, management, and remediation product, User Manager Pro, will be OVAL-Compatible.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>MITRE to Host &quot;Making Security Measurable&quot; Booth at InfoSec World 2008, March 10-11</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080222c</link>
       <description>MITRE is scheduled to host a Making Security Measurable exhibitor booth at InfoSec World Conference &amp; Expo 2008 on March 10-11, 2008 at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando, Florida, USA.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Interpreter - 5.3 Build 59 Released</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080214a</link>
       <description>The OVAL Interpreter has been updated to address several bugs found by Lumension Security, Inc. and others.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Interpreter Moved to SourceForge.net</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080201a</link>
       <description>The OVAL Interpreter and data files will now be hosted on the SourceForge.net Web site at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ovaldi/.</description>
       <pubDate>Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Mentioned in <i>eWeek</i> Article about the Federal Desktop Core Configuration</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080201b</link>
       <description>OVAL was mentioned in a January 13, 2008 article entitled &quot;PC Lockdown in the Government and Beyond&quot; in <i>eWeek Magazine</i>.</description>
       <pubDate>Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>MITRE Hosts &quot;Making Security Measurable&quot; Booth at <i>2008 Information Assurance Workshop</i>, January 28 - February 1</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080201c</link>
       <description>MITRE hosted a Making Security Measurable exhibitor booth at the 2008 Information Assurance Workshop on January 28 - February 1, 2008 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.</description>
       <pubDate>Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Board Teleconference Minutes Posted</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080201d</link>
       <description>Meeting minutes for the OVAL Board teleconference held on Monday, January 14, 2008 have been posted on the Discussion Archives page.</description>
       <pubDate>Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Repository Announces Top Contributors Awards for Q4-2007</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080117a</link>
       <description>Hewlett-Packard and Maitreya Security Ltd. Co. received the &quot;OVAL Repository Top Contributors Awards&quot; for Q4-2007.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Interpreter Updated</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080117b</link>
       <description>The OVAL Interpreter has been updated to incorporate several bug fixes and community code contributions.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Board Holds Teleconference</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080117c</link>
       <description>The OVAL Board held a teleconference on Monday, January 14, 2007 with 20 members participating.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>MITRE Announces Initial &quot;Making Security Measurable&quot; Calendar of Events for 2008</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20080103a</link>
       <description>MITRE has announced its initial Making Security Measurable calendar of events for the first half of 2008.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Celebrates 5 Years!</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20071220a</link>
       <description>OVAL began five years ago this month as a new community baseline standard for how vulnerabilities could be identified on local computers.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Repository Surpasses 5,000+ Definitions Milestone</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20071220b</link>
       <description>The OVAL Repository surpassed the 5,000 OVAL Definitions milestone on December 14, 2007 with a new grand total of 5,061 definitions now available to the public on the OVAL Web site. Of these, there are 1,576 definitions for Microsoft Windows and 3,485 definitions for UNIX.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Red Hat Includes OVAL Interpreter in Fedora 7 and Fedora 8</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20071206a</link>
       <description>Red Hat, Inc. has incorporated the OVAL Interpreter into the latest releases of Fedora 7 and Fedora 8.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>MITRE to Host &quot;Making Security Measurable&quot; Booth at <i>2008 Information Assurance Workshop</i>, January 28 - February 1</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20071206b</link>
       <description>MITRE is scheduled to host a Making Security Measurable exhibitor booth at the <i>2008 Information Assurance Workshop</i> on January 28 - February 1, 2008 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Ai Metrix Makes Declaration of OVAL Compatibility</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20071108a</link>
       <description>Ai Metrix, a SYS Technologies Company, declared that its network management system for Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) services and reporting, NeuralStar Network, will be OVAL-Compatible.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Mentioned in Product Releases Article in <i>Processor Magazine</i></title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20071108b</link>
       <description>OVAL was mentioned in the &quot;Product Releases&quot; article in Processor Magazine on October 5, 2007. OVAL is mentioned in the &quot;Security&quot; section of the article regarding Secure Elements' C5 Compliance Platform 3.3.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Mentioned in Secure Elements Press Release</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20071108c</link>
       <description>OVAL was mentioned in a September 18, 2007 news release from Secure Elements, Inc. entitled &quot;Secure Elements Announces New Version of IT Audit and Compliance Platform.&quot; OVAL is mentioned in the portion of the release that describes how Secure Elements' C5 Compliance Platform Version 3.3 adds enhanced NIST SCAP FISMA reporting.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Repository Main Topic of Secure Elements Press Release</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20071108d</link>
       <description>The OVAL Repository was the main topic of an October 23, 2007 news release from Secure Elements, Inc. entitled &quot;Secure Elements Receives OVAL Repository Top Contributor Award For Advancing Open Information Security Content Standards for the 3rd Quarter of 2007.&quot;</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Repository Announces Top Contributors Awards for Q3-2007</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20071018a</link>
       <description>Maitreya Security Ltd. Co., Opsware, Inc., Secure-Elements, Inc., and ThreatGuard, Inc. received the &quot;OVAL Repository Top Contributors Awards&quot; for Q3-2007.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Mentioned in <i>NetworkWorld</i> Article</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20071018b</link>
       <description>OVAL was mentioned in an article entitled &quot;Service-oriented security&quot; in NetworkWorld on September 25, 2007.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Center for Internet Security Makes Declaration of OVAL Compatibility</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20071004a</link>
       <description>eEye Digital Security, Inc. has declared that its network security risk assessment and vulnerability management products, Retina Network Security Scanner and Retina Enterprise Suite, will be OVAL-Compatible.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Main Topic of Article in <i>SC Magazine</i></title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20071004b</link>
       <description>OVAL was the main topic of an August 20, 2007 article written by OVAL Board member Amol Sarwate of Qualys, Inc. entitled &quot;Hot or not: Open Vulnerability Assessment Language&quot; in <i>SC Magazine</i>.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Included as Topic at Security Automation Conference 2007</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20071004c</link>
       <description>OVAL was included as a topic at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Security Automation Conference &amp; Workshop 2007 on September 19-20, 2007 in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>eEye Digital Security, Inc. Makes Two Declarations of OVAL Compatibility</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070906a</link>
       <description>eEye Digital Security, Inc. has declared that its network security risk assessment and vulnerability management products, Retina Network Security Scanner and Retina Enterprise Suite, will be OVAL-Compatible.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Included in Making Security Measurable Booth at Security Automation Conference 2007, September 19-20</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070906b</link>
       <description>MITRE will host a Making Security Measurable exhibitor booth at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Security Automation Conference &amp; Workshop 2007 on September 19-20, 2007 in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Included as Topic in MITRE Booth at Black Hat Briefings 2007</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070906c</link>
       <description>MITRE hosted a Making Security Measurable exhibitor booth at Black Hat Briefings 2007 on August 1-2, 2007 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>McAfee, Inc. Now Registered as Officially OVAL-Compatible</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070823a</link>
       <description>McAfee, Inc. has completed correctness testing for Phase 3 of the OVAL Compatibility Program for its Hercules Policy Auditor 4.5 and Hercules Remediation Manager 4.5 products, which are both now registered as &quot;Officially OVAL-Compatible.&quot;</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Guidance Software, Inc. Makes Declaration of OVAL Compatibility</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070823b</link>
       <description>Guidance Software, Inc. has declared that its EnCase Information Assurance Suite will be OVAL-Compatible.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Included as Topic at Security Automation Conference &amp; Workshop 2007, September 18-19</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070802a</link>
       <description>OVAL will be included as a topic at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Security Automation Conference &amp; Workshop 2007 on September 18-19, 2007 in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Board Holds Teleconference</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070802b</link>
       <description>The OVAL Board held a teleconference on Monday, July 16, 2007 with 25 members participating.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 2 Aug 2007</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Repository Announces Top Contributors Awards for Q2-2007</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070712</link>
       <description>ThreatGuard, Inc., Secure-Elements, Inc., and Opsware, Inc. received the &quot;OVAL Repository Top Contributors Awards&quot; for Q2-2007.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Version 5.3 of OVAL Now Available</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070627a</link>
       <description>Version 5.3 of OVAL has been moved to the &quot;Official&quot; stage and is now available on the OVAL Language Releases page. The OVAL Interpreter, Interpreter Source Code, and Data Files have also been updated.</description>
       <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Interpreter Updated for Version 5.3</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070627b</link>
       <description>The OVAL Interpreter has been updated to Version 5.3. Specific updates to the OVAL Interpreter included: addition of support for Version 5.3 of the OVAL Language and fixing some minor issues reported by the OVAL Community.</description>
       <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Repository Surpasses 2,000+ Definitions Milestone</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070627c</link>
       <description>The OVAL Repository now contains more than 2,000 OVAL Definitions.</description>
       <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Guidelines for Submitting OVAL Definitions Updated</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070627d</link>
       <description>Updated Guidelines for Submitting OVAL Definitions have been posted in the OVAL Repository section of the OVAL Web site.</description>
       <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Mentioned in Article about Security Content Automation Protocol in Government Computer News</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070627e</link>
       <description>OVAL was mentioned in a May 22, 2007 article entitled &quot;NIST releases FISMA security control tools&quot; in Government Computer News.</description>
       <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>2nd Release Candidate of OVAL Version 5.3 Now Available</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070601a</link>
       <description>A second Release Candidate of Version 5.3 of the OVAL Language is now available.</description>
       <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Opsware, Inc. Now Registered as Officially OVAL Compatible</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070601b</link>
       <description>Opsware, Inc. has completed correctness testing for Phase 3 of the OVAL Compatibility Program for its Opsware Server Automation System.</description>
       <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>New OVAL Board Member: AlterPoint</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070601c</link>
       <description>Roger Castillo of AlterPoint has joined the OVAL Board.</description>
       <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Version 5.3 in Release Candidate Stage</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070517a</link>
       <description>Version 5.3 of the OVAL Language is currently in the Release Candidate stage and is scheduled to be moved to the Official stage on June 6, 2007.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Opsware Inc. Posts Two OVAL Compatibility Questionnaires</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070503a</link>
       <description>Opsware Inc. has achieved the second phase of the OVAL Compatibility Program by posting an OVAL Compatibility Questionnaire for Opsware Server Automation System and OVAL Compatibility Questionnaire for Opsware Network.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>US Army CERDEC Makes Declaration of OVAL Compatibility</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070503b</link>
       <description>US Army CERDEC has declared that its vulnerability assessment and remediation tool, Armadillo, will be OVAL Compatible.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Included as Product Feature in Network Computing Product Review</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070503c</link>
       <description>OVAL was included as a product feature in a March 19, 2007 product review article entitled &quot;Rollout: Kace KBox 1000/2000 Series Appliances&quot; in Network Computing.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Repository Announces Top Contributors Awards for Q1-2007</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070503d</link>
       <description>ThreatGuard, Inc. and Centennial Software Ltd. received the &quot;OVAL Repository Top Contributors Awards&quot; for Q1-2007. The awards serve as public recognition of an organization&#39;s support of the OVAL Repository and as an incentive to others to contribute.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>GFI Software Ltd. Now Registered as Officially OVAL Compatible</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070419a</link>
       <description>GFI Software Ltd. has completed correctness testing for Phase 3 of the OVAL Compatibility Program for GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner, its network vulnerability assessment and remediation product.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Security-Database.com Now Registered as Officially OVAL Compatible</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070419b</link>
       <description>Security-Database.com has completed correctness testing for Phase 3 of the OVAL Compatibility Program for System Security Analyzer, its vulnerability assessment and policy compliance product.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Opsware Inc. Makes Two Declarations of OVAL Compatibility</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070419c</link>
       <description>Opsware Inc. has declared that its Opsware Server Automation System, and its Opsware Network content repository, will be OVAL Compatible.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Holds Compatibility Correctness Testing Session on April 11th</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070419d</link>
       <description>MITRE held an OVAL Compatibility Correctness Testing session on April 11, 2007 at MITRE in Bedford, Massachusetts, USA to test products against Version 5.2 of OVAL.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Version 5.3 in Draft Stage</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070405a</link>
       <description>Version 5.3 of the OVAL Language is currently in the Draft stage and is scheduled to be moved to the Official stage on May 7, 2007.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL to Hold Compatibility Correctness Testing Session on April 11th</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070405b</link>
       <description>MITRE will hold an OVAL Compatibility Correctness Testing session on April 11, 2007 at MITRE in Bedford, Massachusetts, USA to test products against Version 5.2 of OVAL.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>GFI Software Ltd Makes Declaration of OVAL Compatibility and Posts Compatibility Questionnaire</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070301a</link>
       <description>GFI Software Ltd. has declared that its network vulnerability assessment and remediation product, GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner, will be OVAL Compatible.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>McAfee, Inc. Posts Two OVAL Compatibility Questionnaires</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070301b</link>
       <description>McAfee, Inc. has achieved the second phase of the OVAL Compatibility Program by posting an OVAL Compatibility Questionnaire for Hercules Policy Auditor 4.2 and OVAL Compatibility Questionnaire for Hercules Remediation Manager 4.2.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Included in Secure Elements, Inc. News Release</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070301e</link>
       <description>OVAL was included in a February 6, 2006 news release from Secure-Elements, Inc. entitled &quot;Secure Elements announces first ever training program for authoring standards based XML documents for system audit and compliance measurement&quot;.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Mentioned in Award Description in &quot;2007 SC Magazine Awards&quot;</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070301f</link>
       <description>OVAL was cited in the description of SC Magazine&#8217;s &quot;Editor&#8217;s Choice Professional Award&quot; to the NSA&#8217;s Information Assurance Directorate&#8217;s Vulnerability Analysis and Operations (VAO) Group for its work in the past year with the U.S. Air Force and Microsoft Corporation.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Photos from OVAL Booth at 2007 Information Assurance Workshop</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070301g</link>
       <description>OVAL co-hosted a Making Security Measurable exhibitor booth for MITRE&#8217;s OVAL, CVE, CCE, CME, CWE, and CPE efforts at the 11th annual 2007 Information Assurance (IA) Workshop on February 12-15, 2007 at the Wyndham Orlando Resort, in Orlando, Florida, USA.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Configuresoft, Inc. Now Registered as Officially &quot;OVAL-Compatible&quot;</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070215a</link>
       <description>Configuresoft, Inc. has posted an OVAL Compatibility Questionnaire for Configuresoft Enterprise Configuration Manager for Phase 2 of the OVAL Compatibility Program and has completed the Phase 3 correctness testing.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>NetIQ Corporation Now Registered as Officially &quot;OVAL-Compatible&quot;</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070215b</link>
       <description>NetIQ Corporation has posted an OVAL Compatibility Questionnaire for NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager for Phase 2 of the OVAL Compatibility Program and has completed the Phase 3 correctness testing.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>National Institute of Standards and Technology Now Registered as Officially &quot;OVAL-Compatible&quot;</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070215c</link>
       <description>The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has posted an OVAL Compatibility Questionnaire for Security Content Automation Program Content for Phase 2 of the OVAL Compatibility Program and has completed the Phase 3 correctness testing.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>ThreatGuard, Inc. Now Registered as Officially &quot;OVAL-Compatible&quot;</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070215d</link>
       <description>ThreatGuard, Inc. has posted an OVAL Compatibility Questionnaire for Secutor Prime for Phase 2 of the OVAL Compatibility Program and has completed the Phase 3 correctness testing.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Hosts Booth at 2007 Information Assurance Workshop, February 12-15</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070215e</link>
       <description>MITRE hosted an OVAL/CVE/CCE/CME/CWE/CPE exhibitor booth at the 11th annual 2007 Information Assurance (IA) Workshop on February 12-15, 2007 at the Wyndham Orlando Resort, in Orlando, Florida, USA.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>OVAL Hosts Booth at RSA Conference 2007, February 5-8</title>
       <link>http://ovaldev1.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070215f</link>
       <description>MITRE hosted an OVAL/CVE/CCE/CME/CWE/CPE exhibitor booth at RSA Conference 2007 on February 5-8, 2007 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, USA.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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       <title>MITRE Holds OVAL Demo at RSA Conference 2007</title>
       <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070215g</link>
       <description>With the help of government and commercial vendors, MITRE held an OVAL Demonstration across the exposition floor of RSA Conference 2007 on February 5-8, 2007 in San Francisco, California, USA.</description>
       <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>OVAL Repository Launches Awards Program for Top Contributors</title>
            <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070202a</link>
            <description>MITRE has launched an &quot;OVAL Repository Top Contributors Award Program&quot; that grants awards on a quarterly basis to the top contributors to the OVAL Repository.</description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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        <item>
            <title>Version 5.2 of OVAL Now Available</title>
            <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070131a</link>
            <description>Version 5.2 of OVAL has been moved to the &quot;Official&quot; stage and is now available on the OVAL Language Releases page. The OVAL Interpreter, Interpreter Source Code, and Data Files have also been updated.</description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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        <item>
            <title>OVAL Interpreter Updated for Version 5.2</title>
            <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070131b</link>
            <description>The OVAL Interpreter has been updated to Version 5.2. Specific updates to the OVAL Interpreter included: addition of support for Version 5.2 of the OVAL Language and fixing some minor issues reported by the OVAL Community.</description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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        <item>
            <title>OVAL Version 5.2 in Release Candidate Stage</title>
            <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070125a</link>
            <description>Version 5.2 of the OVAL Language is currently in the Release Candidate stage and is scheduled to be moved to the Official stage on January 31, 2007.</description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>OVAL Holds Compatibility Correctness Testing Session on January 17th</title>
            <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070125b</link>
            <description>MITRE held an OVAL Compatibility Correctness Testing session on January 17, 2007 at MITRE in Bedford, Massachusetts, USA to test products against Version 5.1 of OVAL.</description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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        <item>
            <title>MITRE to Hold OVAL Demo at RSA Conference 2007, February 5-8th</title>
            <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070125c</link>
            <description>With the help of both government and commercial vendors, MITRE has organized an OVAL Demonstration to be held across the exposition floor of RSA Conference 2007 on February 5-8, 2007 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, USA.</description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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        <item>
            <title>Security-Database.com Makes Declaration of OVAL Compatibility</title>
            <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070125d</link>
            <description>Security-Database.com declared that its vulnerability assessment and policy compliance product, System Security Analyzer, will be compatible with Version 5.1 of OVAL.</description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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        <item>
            <title>OVAL Board Holds Teleconference</title>
            <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070125e</link>
            <description>The OVAL Board held a teleconference on Tuesday, January 16, 2007, with representatives from 7 member organizations and others participating.</description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>OVAL Repository RSS Feed Now Customizable</title>
            <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070125f</link>
            <description>The OVAL Repository Updates RSS feed can now be customized to a user&#39;s preferences.</description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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        <item>
            <title>OVAL to Hold Compatibility Correctness Testing Session on January 17th</title>
            <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070104a</link>
            <description>MITRE will hold an OVAL Compatibility Correctness Testing session on January 17, 2007 at MITRE in Bedford, Massachusetts</description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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           <item>
            <title>OVAL to Host Booth at RSA Conference 2007, February 5-8 </title>
            <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070104b</link>
            <description>MITRE is scheduled to host an OVAL/CVE/CCE/CWE/CME exhibitor booth at RSA Conference 2007 on February 5-8, 2007</description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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           <item>
            <title>OVAL to Host Booth at the 2007 Information Assurance Workshop, February 12-16 </title>
            <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070104c</link>
            <description>MITRE is scheduled to host an OVAL/CVE/CCE/CWE/CME exhibitor booth at the 11th annual 2007 Information Assurance (IA) Workshop on February 12-16, 2007</description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Important Message about OVAL Web Site Availability, January 13th-16th </title>
            <link>http://oval.mitre.org/news/index.html#20070104d</link>
            <description>Due to business disaster planning activities the OVAL Web site may be temporarily unavailable for short periods</description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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