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Defense Science Board Task Force on Computer Security Reports on Security in a Networked Environment

Circa 5/1967 to 2/11/1970

Between May and September 1967 the Department of Defense requested the Director of the Advanced Research Planning Agency (ARPA) to form a Task Force “to study and recommend hardware and software safeguards that would satisfactorily protect classified information in multi-access, resource-sharing computer systems.” The report was published in February 1970 as Security Controls for Computer Systems: Report of Defense Science Board Task Force on Computer Security - RAND Report R-609-1, edited by Willis H. Ware.

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