Acceptance Criteria
What is Acceptance Criteria?
Predefined conditions that a risk, control, or deliverable must meet to be formally accepted, serving as a benchmark for risk-based decision-making.
Terms that appear alongside acceptance criteria
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as acceptance criteria. The number is how many controls name both.
- risk acceptance 3 shared controls
- availability 3 shared controls
- eu ai act 3 shared controls
- risk assessment 2 shared controls
- iso 31000 2 shared controls
- risk treatment 2 shared controls
- audit 2 shared controls
- policy 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern acceptance criteria
What the standards actually require on acceptance criteria
Requirements naming acceptance criteria across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Requirement defined in ISO 27005:2022, clause 6.4.2 (Risk acceptance criteria). See licensed source for normative text. Implementation focus is to demonstrate conformity with the obligations of this clause through the artefacts listed in evidence_requirements.
iso-27005-2022::6.4.2 · Risk acceptance criteria →Clauses 7 + 7.1 establish ethical requirements definition and traceability. Per public IEEE 7000-2021 abstract + Wikipedia + academic literature (full IEEE text NOT reproduced): translate prioritised ethical values + stakeholder concerns into system requiremen...
IEEE7000-EthicalRequirements-ValueBased-Traceability-DesignIntegration · IEEE 7000 Clauses 7 + 7.1 - Ethical Requirements Definition + Value-Based Requirements + Traceability + System Engineering Design Integration + AI Validation →Control the release of products to customers, ensuring released items meet acceptance criteria with traceability to underlying baselines.
SPL.2 · Product Release →Document, communicate and make available a risk management procedure that covers identification of confidentiality, integrity, availability and authenticity risks with named risk owners, likelihood and impact analysis, evaluation against defined acceptance cri...
C5-OIS-06 · Risk Management Policy →Test applications for security before release against defined acceptance criteria covering new systems, upgrades and versions, automating the testing where the delivery pipeline allows.
CCM-AIS-05 · Automated Application Security Testing →Deliver the software and conduct acceptance, including the Test Readiness Review (TRR) and the Acceptance Review (AR), against the agreed acceptance criteria.
ECSS-40C-5.7 · Software delivery and acceptance process →Questions people ask about acceptance criteria
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