Quality Assurance
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A systematic, process-oriented management function whose purpose is to provide confidence that defined quality requirements will be fulfilled — as NIST's CSRC glossary defines it (drawing from ISO 9000:2015) as "part of quality management focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled," cited in NIST SP 800-160v1r1. It is distinguished from quality *control* in that it is process-oriented and focuses on defect prevention, while quality control is product-oriented and focuses on defect identification. In information security and compliance contexts, it appears as an organizational role or activity — sitting alongside roles such as engineering, operations, and audit — that monitors processes, tests, and work products against defined standards to ensure consistent, reliable outcomes; in software and systems engineering this takes the form of monitoring all engineering processes, methods, and work products to ensure compliance against defined standards, including standards and procedures that managers, administrators, or developers use to review and audit products and activities.
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