<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 23 Jul 2023, at 8:31 pm, Prof. Dr. Peter Bernard Ladkin <ladkin@techfak.de> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Am I right that this is a regime that concerns cybersecurity? And that it is a US Government process? And that it concerns largely IT systems?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></div></blockquote><br></div><div>All good questions I was hoping someone wiser might have answers to.</div><div><br></div><div>cATO arrises in relation to something called SecDevOps and is promoted by elements of the military cyber community, so certainly safety is not front and centre. That may be a problem rather than a feature.</div><br><div>It would be nice to think that cATO only applies to “IT” systems, if by IT you mean typewriter and calculator replacement software. </div><div><br></div><div>My concerns are that it seems to be being promoted as an approach to in-servicing “intelligent” systems, meaning they intend to use cATO to authorise the fielding of whole swathes of “operator” replacement software. Hence my question to the list. </div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone across cATO care to comment?</div><div><br></div><div>Brendan</div></body></html>