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==Purpose==

The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), pronounced “Scap”“ess-cap”, combines a number of open standards that are used to enumerate software flaws and configuration issues related to security. They measure systems to find vulnerabilities and offer methods to score those findings in order to evaluate the possible impact. It is a method for using those open standards for automated vulnerability management, measurement, and policy compliance evaluation. SCAP defines how the following standards (referred to as SCAP 'Components') are combined:

===SCAP Components===

* [[Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures]] [http://cve.mitre.org/ (CVE)]