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During World War II, the predecessor to the CIA, the Office of Strategic Services, developed a framework for the French Resistance to identify vulnerabilities in key German defenses and infrastructure. The framework, titled “CARVER” applies the following designations to enumerated components of complex systems: Criticality, Accessibility, Recepurability, Vulnerability, Effect, Recognizability. The same framework, viewed through a security framework, will highlight a system’s strengths or weaknesses, depending on the analyst’s tasking. This panel will examine voting systems in the context of the CARVER framework.
During World War II, the predecessor to the CIA, the Office of Strategic Services, developed a framework for the French Resistance to identify vulnerabilities in key German defenses and infrastructure. The framework, titled “CARVER” applies the following designations to enumerated components of complex systems: Criticality, Accessibility, Recepurability, Vulnerability, Effect, Recognizability. The same framework, viewed through a security framework, will highlight a system’s strengths or weaknesses, depending on the analyst’s tasking. This panel will examine voting systems in the context of the CARVER framework.
