What is it about?
This paper describes experience building a process for software security assurance and how and why the process works. It also discusses ways of providing users with confidence that a system achieves an appropriate degree of assurance.
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Why is it important?
Software security assurance is fundamental to the safety of the computer systems that organizations use to operate their businesses and that individuals use to manage their personal information and activities. Both individuals and organizations need ways of gaining confidence in the security of the software they rely on.
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Security assurance has been the most challenging topic I’ve had to contend with in my 45 years working on computer security. This paper summarizes an approach that I've found to be successful.
Mr Steven B Lipner
Retired
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This page is a summary of: Security assurance, Communications of the ACM, October 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/2822513.
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