Assessing and Managing Quality of Information Assurance

Abstract

The connection of coalition systems has many challenges, one of the most important and the one being address by this paper is the lack of understanding of information assurance (IA) in a coalition environment. This paper presents an approach to managing this coalition IA risk using a taxonomy to organize readily available observations and measurements that are potential indicators of a system's level of information assurance (IA). This paper also describes how this taxonomy can be used for runtime mission-oriented assessment and management of IA assets. In this context, a mission refers to a specific set of tasks carried out using the system by a group of users cooperating towards achieving a common objective, and IA refers to the users' level of confidence that the system can be entrusted with their respective tasks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA546408

Entities

People

  • Partha Pal
  • Patrick Hurley

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Authentication
  • Availability
  • Computer Access Control
  • Cyberattacks
  • Defense Mechanisms
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Assurance
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Measurement
  • Observation
  • Reliability
  • Standards
  • Survivability
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Vulnerability

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Software Engineering.