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Tag: Failure-Assumed 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…