Emerging viral illnesses – preparedness, testing and assuring safety

Assuring safety in therapies

Assuring Software Security Through Testing

(ISC)2®’s whitepaper, Code (In)Security, highlights various considerations that need to be taken into account to develop code that is secure. But merely developing secure code without attesting to its assurance capabilities is akin to operating an automobile without checking to ensure that the brakes work as expected. With such an outlook, a crash becomes not just possible but inevitable. This ...

Assuring Homeland Security: Continuous Monitoring, Control & Assurance of Emergency Preparedness

This paper examines the potential relationships of Continuous Auditing and Emergency Preparedness to the design, development, and implementation of Emergency Response Management Information Systems (ERMIS). It develops an argument for the integration of emergency response processes and continuous decision process auditing requirements into the system development life cycle of an organization wi...

Assuring Separation of Safety and Non-safety Related Systems

Safety standards call for the separation of safety and nonsafety related systems. Although good guidance is provided in these standards on how to achieve the required hazard analysis, safety integrity assignment and validation to prove a safe system, there is little available on establishing safety boundaries around the critical components and the proof of isolation from non-safety functions. D...

Comprehensive Lifecycle for Assuring System Safety

This paper explores domain arguments—arguments about why techniques, processes, and designs possess properties as believed by their domain experts. An elicitation technique for their recovery from domain documents is presented. This is followed by demonstrated application of the technique to several domain artifacts from aviation engineering. The elicited arguments are presented and analyzed fo...