DOD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process

Overview
The DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) is the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) process to ensure that risk management is applied on information systems (IS). DIACAP defines a DoD-wide formal and standard set of activities, general tasks and a management structure process for the certification and accreditation (C&A) of a DoD IS that will maintain the information assurance (IA) posture throughout the system's life cycle.

External link

 * DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) (DoD Instruction No. 8510.01) (November 28, 2007) (full-text).