Accession Number:

ADA393186

Title:

Guidelines for Writing Trusted Facility Manuals

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL SECURITY SERVICE FORT GEORGE G MEADE MD

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1992-10-01

Pagination or Media Count:

53.0

Abstract:

Guidelines for Writing Trusted Facility Manuals provides a set of good practices related to the documentation of trusted facility management functions of systems employed for processing classified and other sensitive information. A Trusted Facility Manual TFM is a document written by a system vendor that describes how to configure and install a specific secure system, operate the system in a secure manner, and make effective use of the system privileges and protection mechanisms to control access to administrative functions and databases.

Descriptors:

• *DATA PROCESSING SECURITY
• *ELECTRONIC SECURITY
• DATA BASES
• REQUIREMENTS
• COMPUTERS
• SELF CONTAINED
• IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS
• CLASSIFIED MATERIALS
• MANUALS
• SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

Subject Categories:

• Computer Systems Management and Standards

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE