Certification and accreditation of SOA implementations: Programmatic rules for the DoD

As the number of individual service-oriented architecture (SOA) projects going through the certification and accreditation (C&A)process in the DoD increases, it becomes more important to clarify the unknowns associated with each component. This article is a starting point for chief information officers, senior information assurance officers (SIAOs), and project managers (PMs) in the DoD, providing an overview of the challenges associated with the C&A process for SOA implementations and outlining eight rules to consider in support of a successful C&A of an SOA implementation.