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This book teaches you Certification & Accreditation (C&A) concepts that can be applied to all of the leading C&A methodologies (NIST, NIACAP, DIACAP, DITSCAP, DCID 6/3). While the book is especially useful to U.S. federal agencies, private companies can also make use of all of the concepts described in the book and use these concepts in performing security audits on their own infrastructure. The book is something that every Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) will want to keep in their arsenal of reference material.
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