Accession Number:

ADA090759

Title:

A System Architecture to Support a Verifiably Secure Multilevel Security System.

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

GEORGIA INST OF TECH ATLANTA SCHOOL OF INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Personal Author(s):

• Davida,George I.
• DeMilo,Richard A.
• Lipton,Richard J.

Report Date:

1980-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

11.0

Abstract:

Technology that allows significant sharing of computer resources carriers with it an increased responsibility to protect these resources from unauthorized, malicious, irresponsible, or unintended use or disclosure. The years have seen a progression of increasingly sensitive information made available in increasingly less supervised modes to a variety of users. Commercial users routinely store valuable financial information and conduct cashless transactions electronically. University professors maintain class grading forms and examinations on departmental computers. Government agencies keep extensive databases of sensitive information regarding employees, foreign nationals, U.S. citizens. The military and intelligence communities continue to press for more powerful techniques to enhance their information gathering and processing capabilities. In spite of the clear need for guarantees of security, all practical schemes to protect information stored or manipulated by such systems are either seriously flawed or reduce ultimately to a collection of physical security protocols.

Descriptors:

• *DATA PROCESSING
• *SECURITY
• COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• DATA BASES
• DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT
• MULTIPLE ACCESS

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software
• Computer Hardware
• Computer Systems Management and Standards

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE