86-10-10 End-User Computing Security Guidelines

This article examines security within the context of an architecture based on quality. To achieve quality, the elements of continuity, confidentiality, and integrity need to be provided. Confidentiality as it relates to quality can be defined as access control. It includes an authorization process, authentication of users, a management capability, and auditability. This last element, auditability, extends beyond a traditional definition of the term to encompass the ability of management to detect unusual or unauthorized circumstances and actions and to trace events in an historical fashion. Integrity, another element of quality, involves the usual components of validity and accuracy but also includes individual accountability. All information system security implementations need to achieve these components of quality in some fashion. In distributed and end-user computing environments, however, they may be difficult to implement.