Abstract :
Summary form only given. NSA is willing to rely on commercial security products and services to satisfy its customer´s needs, but only if the commercial offerings have sufficient assurance of quality, reliability, safety, and appropriateness for use. These assurances are lacking in most of today´s commercial security products. Paths to better assurance in Operating Systems, Applications, and Hardware through better development environments, requirements definition, systems engineering, quality certification, and legal constraints will be discussed.
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; quality control; reliability; security; assurance; commercial security products; development environments; legal constraints; quality; quality certification; reliability; requirements definition; safety; security products; systems engineering; Certification; Hardware; Information security; National security; Operating systems; Product safety; Reliability engineering; Snow; Systems engineering and theory; USA Councils;
