Data Security Letter; Special Issue

Lunt, Teresa F. (Editor and Publisher)

Published by Data Security Letter, Redwood City, CA, 1990

About this Item

4 pages. One approximately 17 inch by 11 inch sheet printed on both sides and folded to create a 4 page periodical. The Data Security Letter was published 9 times a year. It's purpose was to help data security professionals by providing inside information and knowledgeable analysis of developments in computer and communications security. This special issue was, in part, a solicitation for subscriptions. This is a rare surviving piece of data security/computer security ephemera/technical literature associated with one of the pioneers in computer security who rose to prominence in the last quarter of the 20th century. She was a pioneer by any measure, but it is noteworthy that she was one of the early female cyber security experts to gain recognition in this emerging field. Teresa Lunt has an M.A. in applied mathematics from Indiana University and an A.B. in geophysics from Princeton. She was a computer security pioneer. In an interview related to work supported by the National Science Foundation, "Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History," she discussed her work in the computer security field at MITRE Corporation, SRI International, DARPA, and PARC. At SRI she was a principal research scientist on IDES, the first meaningful intrusion detection expert system. Her work at SRI was pioneering a highly secure database system (research initially launched by Dorothy Denning), as well as her work at DARPA's Information Technology Office where she started research programs in computer and network security. Lunt was the vice president and director of the Computing Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC. Her publications include information assurance, security in object-oriented systems, automated audit trail analysis, and software security modeling. Presumed First Edition, First printing this special issue.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Data Security Letter; Special Issue
• Publisher: Data Security Letter, Redwood City, CA
• Publication Date: 1990
• Binding: Periodical
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Computer Security