Computer assurance: security, safety, and economics

Author

Hankinson, Allen L.

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Gaithersburg, MD, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

19-23 Jun 1989

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

The author identifies some common objectives, activities, key issues, and problems of software system assurance, security, safety, and integrity, and approaches to dealing with them. Risk assessment and software product assurance and risk levels are discussed. It is argued that a key problem for computer assurance of security, safety, and economics is to provide visibility of information about software issues at upper management levels. A solution to this problem requires cooperation among the federal agencies, industry, and academia

Keywords

safety; security of data; software reliability; academia; economics; federal agencies; industry; information visibility; integrity; risk assessment; risk levels; safety; security; software issues; software product assurance; software system assurance; upper management levels; Application software; Computer security; Hazards; Information security; NIST; National security; Operating systems; Product safety; Software safety; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Assurance, 1989. COMPASS '89, 'Systems Integrity, Software Safety and Process Security', Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference on

Conference_Location

Gaithersburg, MD

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPASS.1989.76028

Filename

76028