Denial of Service — Panel Discussion

Abstract

Virgil Gligor: I decided to go first, to review a brief history of what I think the denial of service problem was, and the motivation. I started working on this at a time when the denial of service problem was being denied, in fact we were in a state of denial. In particular, this is 1981 to 1983 when the Orange book was being written, and some of us were told that denial of service doesn’t exist, it’s not a security problem. So by 1983 the tune had changed, it wasn’t really that denial of service wasn’t a security problem: it was really a subset of an integrity problem, therefore if we address integrity and confidentiality we covered the entire spectrum of security altogether and let’s not worry about denial of service.