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System Level IA Guidance

NSA provides Information Systems Security Engineering (ISSE) for a significant number of U.S. system development efforts. In the course of this IA mission, we develop much IA guidance. To assist system developers who face similar IA challenges, we publish our findings as generalized IA guidance.

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Although beneficial, this generalized guidance is not a substitute for the sound ISSE activity that should be an integral part of all system development efforts.

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System Level IA Guidance

(files provided in PDF format)

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SSE-100-1, National Security Agency Information Assurance Guidance for Systems Based on a Security Real-Time Operating System
(click here for executive summary)

2,287KB (PDF)

14 Dec 05

Guidance for Addressing Malicious Code Risk

296KB (PDF)

10 Sep 07
 

Date Posted: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Modified: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Reviewed: Jan 15, 2009

  
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