(insurance) Life insurance that pays out a lump sum benefit on the death of the life assured within the term of the policy, and nothing on survival to the end of the term.

plural of sum assured

(insurance) The amount of benefit that an insurance contract pays out to a beneficiary on the occurrence of a contingent insured event.

plural of life assured

(insurance) A person whose life is insured under a life insurance policy.

The practice of assuring information and managing risks related to the use, processing, storage, and transmission of information or data and the systems and processes used for those purposes.

A system in which the delivery of a service or the quality of a product is assessed, and compared with that required.

(software engineering) The level of confidence that software is free from vulnerabilities, either intentionally designed or accidentally inserted at any time.

(euphemistic, US Southern) buttocks, ass.

plural of blessed assurance