From First Week…
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?
600.436 High-
Assurance Systems
Fall 01/Introduction
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