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System Assurance

Definitions:

  The justified confidence that the system functions as intended and is free of exploitable vulnerabilities, either intentionally or unintentionally designed or inserted as part of the system at any time during the life cycle.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-161r1 from NDIA
NISTIR 7622 from NDIA-2008