Software Security Assurance: A State-of-Art Report (SAR)
Karen Mercedes Goertzel, Theodore Winograd, Holly L. McKinley, Lyndon Oh, Michael A. Colón, Thomas McGibbon, Elaine Fedchak, Robert L. Vienneau · 2007
This Information Assurance Technology Analysis Center (IATAC) State-of-the-Art (SOAR) describes the current "state-of-the-art" in software security assurance. It provides an overview of the current state of the environment in which defense and national security software must operate then surveys current and emerging activities and organizations involved in promoting various aspects of software security assurance. The SDAR also describes the variety of techniques and technologies in use in government, industry, and academia for specifying, acquiring, producing, assessing, and deploying software that can, with a justifiable degree of confidence, be said to be secure. Finally, the SOAR presents observations about noteworthy trends in software security assurance as a discipline.