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Tag: Assurance

  • Resilient Assurance: A Failure-Assumed Approach to Confidence and Control

    “Mature assurance is not the pursuit of perfect prevention. It is the disciplined management of inevitable failures” Limits of Classical Assurance Traditional or classical Assurance tends to make assumptions; that controls are implemented, that controls operate correctly, and thus that risk is reduced. In practice, things are not generally so simple. Controls decay. Environments change…

  • Strong Ciphers, Weak Assumptions

    The best laid plans of mice and men… A lot of attention has been paid to the design and implementation of messaging apps. Signal usually comes out as being considered the most trustworthy of the bunch by people who worry about detail, but there are other apps with real end-to-end encryption too. Of course, subverting…