System Security Study Committee

Overview
The System Security Study Committee was formed by the Computer Science and Technology Board (which became the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board in September 1990) in response to a fall 1988 request from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to address the security and trustworthiness of U.S. computing and communications systems. The committee was charged with developing a national research, engineering, and policy agenda to help the United States achieve a more trustworthy computing technology base by the end of the century.

DARPA asked the committee to take a broad outlook &mdash; to consider the interrelationship of security and other qualities (e.g., safety and reliability), commercialization as well as research, and the diverse elements of the research and policy communities.