• DocumentCode
    1072123
  • Title

    Security Is a Subset of Reliability

  • Author

    Geer, Daniel E., Jr. ; Conway, Daniel G.

  • Author_Institution
    In-Q-Tel, Arlington, VA
  • Volume
    6
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    86
  • Lastpage
    87
  • Abstract
    Reliability measures the deviation between the system and the specification. Security involves a subspace of reliability-only particular deviations-thus, security must be easier than reliability. Hastening over the delicate premise that the specification is always accurate and up-to-date, we can roughly align security with the subset of reliability where the cost of deviation per unit time is very high. This makes us wonder about measuring how risk tolerance scales and consequently where to point our our thumbs.
  • Keywords
    formal specification; risk management; security of data; software reliability; reliability measurement; risk tolerance scales; security; specification; Availability; Costs; Delay; Educational institutions; Manufacturing; Pediatrics; Protection; Redundancy; Security; Thumb; Dan Conway; Dan Geer; For Good Measure; Security; economics of security; metrics; reliability;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Security & Privacy, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSP.2008.151
  • Filename
    4753681