With surety discipline

• Common body of knowledge, based on well-accepted principles
• Better emphasis on the balance of safety, reliability, security and use control
• Government and industry understand risk and know how and when to mitigate it
• Systems are performance based--therefore measurable
• Establish a new discipline of surety, which is taught in our universities and increases knowledge and application

Surety will Build a Stronger, Safer America Against the Spectrum of Threats

The higher the consequence, the higher the level of surety must be deployed.

LEVEL IV

Laws of nature and mathematics

LEVEL III

Positive measures from science and engineering

LEVEL II

Proactive human intervention

LEVEL I

Working sufficiently as expected

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