Security Measure

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The Security Measure assesses the degree to which an application protects information and data so that persons or other products or systems have the degree of data access appropriate to their types and levels of authorization (ISO 25010). Security measures the risk of potential security breaches due to poor coding and architectural practices. Security problems have been studied extensively by the Software Assurance community and have been codified in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE).

Source: OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC - 22 January 2013