Editing Evaluation Assurance Level (section)

=== Impact on cost and schedule ===

In 2006, the US [[Government Accountability Office]] published a report on Common Criteria evaluations that summarized a range of costs and schedules reported for evaluations performed at levels EAL2 through EAL4.

[[Image:Common Criteria evaluation costs.gif|frame|none| Range of completion times and costs for Common Criteria evaluations at EAL2 through EAL4.]]

In the mid to late 1990s, vendors reported spending US$1 million and even US$2.5 million on evaluations comparable to EAL4. There have been no published reports of the cost of the various [[Microsoft Windows]] security evaluations.