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The essence of information assurance and its implications for the Ada community

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There is a growing need to engineer and operate critical systems with some level of measurable trust in the functions that make these systems secure. The term Information Assurance (IA) is now widely used to refer to the general concept of system security and this establishment of trust, but IA has yet to receive a precise definition. This paper discusses the concepts and principles that are essential to achieving IA objectives as a means to provide insights to the safety-critical Ada community regarding opportunities to impact the development of trusted security solutions.

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          SIGAda '02: Proceedings of the 2002 annual ACM SIGAda international conference on Ada: The engineering of correct and reliable software for real-time & distributed systems using Ada and related technologies
          December 2002
          68 pages
          ISBN:1581136110
          DOI:10.1145/589451

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