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High-Assurance Systems
Fall 01/Introduction
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From First
Week…
The Basic Questions of Assurance
The Basic Questions of Assurance
¨How
should “secure” be defined?
¨How
can a user, customer, or third party go about evaluating a vendor security
claim?
¨What
confidence does the user or customer have in the validity of the security
claim?
¨On
what can/should confidence in the validity of the security claim be founded?