Browsing by Subject "System Development Corporation (SDC)"

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    Oral history interview with Lance Hoffman by Rebecca Slayton
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2014-07-01) Hoffman, Lance
    This interview with security pioneer Lance Hoffman discusses his entrance into the field of computer security and privacy—including earning a B.S. in math at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, interning at SDC, and earning a PhD at Stanford University—before turning to his research on computer security risk management at as a Professor at the University of California–Berkeley and George Washington University. He also discusses the relationship between his PhD research on access control models and the political climate of the late 1960s, and entrepreneurial activities ranging from the creation of a computerized dating service to the starting of a company based upon the development of a decision support tool, RiskCalc. Hoffman also discusses his work with the Association for Computing Machinery and IEEE Computer Society, including his role in helping to institutionalize the ACM Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy. The interview concludes with some reflections on the current state of the field of cybersecurity and the work of his graduate students. This interview is part of a project conducted by Rebecca Slayton and funded by an ACM History Committee fellowship on “Measuring Security: ACM and the History of Computer Security Metrics.”
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    Oral history interview with Marvin Schaefer
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2013-11-20) Schaefer, Marvin
    This interview with computer security pioneer Marvin Schaefer discusses his roles and perspectives on computer security work at the System Development Corporation over many years (an organization he began working at in the summer of 1965), as well as his work at the National Computer Security Center in helping to create the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC). With the latter he relates the challenges to writing the criteria, the debates over the structure and levels, and the involvement of criteria lawyers. He also summarizes his work at the company Trusted Information Systems. In addition to detailing his pivotal work in computer security, he offers insightful commentary on issues in the field such as the Bell-LaPadula Model, John McLean’s System Z, and other topics. 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 Richard A. Kemmerer
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2014-04-30) Kemmerer, Richard A.
    Computer security pioneer Richard Kemmerer discusses his graduate training (at UCLA), his early and long-term consulting work for System Development Corporation in computer security research and development, and his research and education of graduate students at University of California at Santa Barbara. Among the topics covered are his work on Secure Unix, electronic voting, intrusion detection, and other areas. He also relates perspectives on early conferences (VERkshop, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, and others), the NCSC and TCSEC, and other topics. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1116862, “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.”