Browsing by Subject "Access Control Facility 2 (ACF2)"

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    Oral history interview with Barry Schrager
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2012-05-24) Schrager, Barry
    Barry Schrager, who has a M.S. in applied mathematics from Northwestern University, is a seminal figure in the design and development of early commercial computer security software products. From 1968 to 1978 he served as Assistant Director of the University of Illinois-Chicago Circle Computer Center, where activity of student hackers on the center’s time-shared system led him to investigate methods and tools to achieve greater security. In the early 1970s he became involved with IBM SHARE, and led a committee of emerging computer security experts – SHARE’s Data Security and Management Group. Schrager and his group’s 1974 SHARE white paper defined access control requirements to achieve security, which led to IBM’s 1976 computer security software product, Resource Access Control Facility (RACF). Initially this product fell short of the requirements outlined in the white paper and Schrager and a colleague, Eberhard Klemens, developed a prototype Access Control Facility (ACF) which met the requirements. In 1978 these two teamed up with Scott Krueger to found SKK, Inc. and refine this computer security software product as ACF2 for its first customer London Life Insurance (Ontario, Canada). Soon thereafter SKK sold this product to General Motors and many other major corporations/organizations. ACF2 became a billion dollar product that is now owned by Computer Associates. This oral history concentrates on Schrager’s work with SHARE, the creation of ACF2, and his leadership of SKK, Inc. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1116862, “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.”
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    Oral history interview with Robert E. Johnston
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2013-10-28) Johnston, Robert E.
    This interview with computer security pioneer Robert Johnston stands out for its documentation of early efforts to implement computer security systems and policies within corporations. Specifically it details his leadership with computer security in the insurance industry (at Travelers, The Hartford, and Phoenix Mutual) in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as his role as workshops chair for the Computer Security Institute, an important, independent, user-focused organization for inter-firm sharing of information and knowledge on computer security. He also discusses a secure facility (unprecedented within industry) he designed and oversaw that was used in discovery with the IBM-Fujitsu legal battle, and professionalization issues in the computer security field. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1116862, “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.”