Assurance Glossary

Browse 5 assurance terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

5 Assurance Terms

Data Integrity: The property that data remains accurate, complete, and unaltered except through authorized, intended changes. In security work, protecting data integrity is as...
EAL: Short for Evaluation Assurance Level, a rating in the Common Criteria framework that indicates the depth and rigor of a product security evaluation. Higher...
High Assurance: Describing systems, processes, or controls built and evaluated to a level intended to support strong confidence in their security properties under demanding...
Information Assurance: A broad discipline focused on ensuring information remains trustworthy, available, protected, and properly managed throughout its lifecycle. It is often...
Integrity Verification: The process of proving that a system component, dataset, message, or file remains authentic and unmodified from a trusted state. Integrity verification is...