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Independence

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

Self-governance, freedom from conflict of interest and undue influence. The IT auditor should be free to make his or her own decisions, not influenced by the organization being audited, or by its managers and employees.

Framework senses

FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 20121 senseview framework →
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Freedom from outside control or support.
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary1 senseview framework →
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Self-governance, freedom from conflict of interest and undue influence. The IT auditor should be free to make his or her own decisions, not influenced by the organization being audited, or by its managers and employees.
Systems and software engineering —Vocabulary1 senseview framework →
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Of software quality assurance (SQA), situation in which SQA is free from technical, managerial, and financial influences, intentional or unintentional
A Statistical Test Suite for Random and Pseudorandom Number Generators for Cryptographic Applications.1 senseview framework →
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Two events are independent if the occurrence of one event does not affect the chances of the occurrence of the other event. The mathematical formulation of the independence of events A and B is the probability of the occurrence of both A and B being equal to the product of the probabilities of A and B (i.e., P(A and B) = P(A)P(B))