Schrager Klemons and Kruger
Sent from my iPhone No one said I could type with one thumb > On Jun 25, 2025, at 14:22, Grantham, Chip > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oral history interview with Barry Schrager > (Charles Babbage Institute, 2012-05-24) Schrager, Barry > Barry Schrager, who has a M.S. in applied mathematics from Northwestern > University, is a seminal figure in the design and development of early > commercial computer security software products. From 1968 to 1978 he served > as Assistant Director of the University of Illinois-Chicago Circle Computer > Center, where activity of student hackers on the center’s time-shared system > led him to investigate methods and tools to achieve greater security. In the > early 1970s he became involved with IBM SHARE, and led a committee of > emerging computer security experts – SHARE’s Data Security and Management > Group. Schrager and his group’s 1974 SHARE white paper defined access control > requirements to achieve security, which led to IBM’s 1976 computer security > software product, Resource Access Control Facility (RACF). Initially this > product fell short of the requirements outlined in the white paper and > Schrager and a colleague, Eberhard Klemens, developed a prototype Access > Control Facility (ACF) which met the requirements. In 1978 these two teamed > up with Scott Krueger to found SKK, Inc. and refine this computer security > software product as ACF2 for its first customer London Life Insurance > (Ontario, Canada). Soon thereafter SKK sold this product to General Motors > and many other major corporations/organizations. ACF2 became a billion dollar > product that is now owned by Computer Associates. This oral history > concentrates on Schrager’s work with SHARE, the creation of ACF2, and his > leadership of SKK, Inc. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Phil Smith III > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2025 2:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Many Moons > > Barry Schrager, Eberhard Klemens, and Scott Krueger > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Steve Thompson > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2025 3:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Many Moons > > What did SKK stand for? > > I've heard about SKK off and on over the years but just can't remember what > it stood for (acronym kinda thing). > > Steve Thompson > > On 6/25/20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
