February 1, 2019 Outline

Reading: text, §19.2, 20
Due: Homework 2, due February 8, 2019


  1. Assurance
    1. Assurance and software life cycle
  2. Policy and requirements
    1. Security specifications
    2. Problems with precision
    3. Example: System X and Bell-LaPadula
    4. Justifying requirements
  3. Techniques to support design assurance
    1. Subsystem, subcomponent, module
  4. Design documents
    1. Security functions summary specification
    2. External functional specification
    3. Internal design description
  5. Justifying design meets requirements
    1. Reviews

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