Re: Certification & Accredition????

From: Matt Curtin (cmcurtin_at_interhack.net)
Date: 08/15/03 

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:56:47 -0400

Subba Rao <sailorn@attglobal.net> writes:

> What is Certification & Accredition (C&A)? Is there some special
> training for this?

This refers to certification and accreditation of systems, not of
people.

See http://csrc.nist.gov/sec-cert/. 

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Author of /Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security/ (Apress, 2001)

Relevant Pages

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  • Re: cert authority
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