Information Assurance: National Partnership Offers Benefits, but Faces Considerable Challenges

Abstract

While NIAP process participants vendors, laboratories, and federal agencies indicated that the process (see figure below) offers benefits for use in national security systems, its effectiveness has not been measured or documented, and considerable challenges to acquiring and using NIAP-evaluated products exist. Specific benefits included independent testing and evaluation of products and accreditation of the performing laboratories, the discovery and correction of product flaws, and improvements to vendor development processes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2006
Accession Number
AD1181244

Entities

People

  • Gregory C. Wilshusen

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accountability
  • Data Analysis
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Governments
  • House Of Representatives
  • Information Assurance
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • National Security
  • Reliability
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Websites

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Systems Analysis and Design