Chapter 3 Understanding the Certification and Accreditation Process

Topics in this chapter:

image Recognizing the Need for C&A

image Roles and Responsibilities

image Stepping through the Process

“You say it as you understand it.”

—Johann Friedrich von Schiller, famous German dramatist and poet

Introduction

The Certification and Accreditation (C&A) process begins when an information system owner recognizes that either an application, system, group of systems, ...

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