Compartmented Mode Workstations



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Compartmented Mode Workstations

The DoD Intelligence Information Systems (DODIIS) program needed to describe systems which would address the same security issues which were described in the General Issues chapter, as well as the more stringent requirements of the DoD security policies [Woo87]. This includes the capability of displaying data, which is classified at different levels, within different windows at the same time. They created a series of documents that described the workstation requirements, guidelines for implementing the requirements, and the criteria for evaluating an implementation.

The requirements for Compartmented Mode Workstations (CMW) are structured in terms of:





John Barkley
Fri Oct 7 16:17:21 EDT 1994