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- From: mj03370@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM (M.S. Jaffe)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: Security Levels
- Message-ID: <24445@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 17:42:53 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.232220.8343@cbis.ece.drexel.edu>
- Reply-To: mj03370@hacgate.UUCP (M.S. Jaffe)
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- Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA
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- In article <1992Dec14.232220.8343@cbis.ece.drexel.edu> jpw@lorelei.ece.drexel.edu (Joseph Wetstein) writes:
- >Could somebody be kind enough to post (or mail) the definitions (with
- >examples, in clear english) of the NSCS security levels/criteria,
- >i.e. D, C1, C2, B1, ... etc.
- >
- >If there are any gov't publications available, how would I get them?
- >
- >Thanks!
- >
- >
-
- The levels of security are defined in the Trusted Computer System
- Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC, also known as the Orange Book - it's cover
- is orange; it is also a Defense Department standard, DoD 5200.28-STD).
- It is part of the rainbow series, so called because the various
- reference books, all on the subject of computer security, have
- different colored covers - e.g., Orange Book, Red Book, etc.). They are
- available upon request from the National Computer Security Center, 9800
- Savage Road, Fort George Meade, Maryland, 20755-6000. A university
- library might well already have a copy, possibly even a full set of the
- rainbow series.
-
-