===== Security Measure =====
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The **Security Measure** assesses the degree to which an [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:a:application|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). [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:s:security_measure|Security measures]] the risk of potential security breaches due to poor coding and architectural practices. Security problems have been studied extensively by the [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:s:swassurance|Software Assurance]] community and have been codified in the [[ https://cwe.mitre.org/ | Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)]].

Source: [[ http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/3.0/xacml-3.0-core-spec-os-en.pdf | OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC - 22 January 2013]]