A DoD-Oriented Introduction to the NDIA's System Assurance Guidebook

www.stsc.hill.af.mil 7 F decades, industry and defense organizations have tried to build affordable, secure, and trustworthy systems. Despite significant strides toward this goal, there is ample evidence showing that adversaries retain their ability to compromise systems. Consequently, there is growing awareness that systems must be designed, built, and operated with the expectation that system elements will have both known and unknown vulnerabilities. SA is defined as: