The Basic Questions of Assurance
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How should “
secure
” be defined?
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How can a user, customer, or third party go
about evaluating a vendor security claim?
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What confidence does the user or customer
have that it is true (or false)?
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On what can/should such confidence be
founded?
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Assurance Systems
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