The Security Sentinels

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http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO69872,00.html

[Its a good article, but the sidebars made it impossible to forward on 
to the list, click the URL for the whole story. - WK]


By DEBORAH RADCLIFF 
April 08, 2002

As far back as the 1970s, three women began preparing the world for 
the havoc about to be unleashed by networked computing. From their 
humble origins in law enforcement and academia, their influence on 
computer security practices has spread to government and private 
sector alike - despite the fact that two of the women had virtually no 
IT or scientific backgrounds.  

These security pioneers include Martha Stansell-Gamm, a former U.S. 
Air Force judge advocate who started an arduous fight against breast 
cancer as she took over leadership of the then 8-year-old Computer 
Crime and Intellectual Property section of the U.S. Department of 
Justice (DOJ). 

While developing the DOJ's forensics procedures for search and seizure 
of electronic evidence, Stansell-Gamm crossed paths with Raemarie 
Schmidt, who developed digital forensics procedures for Wisconsin's 
branch of the DOJ. Schmidt's work helped set the standard for computer 
forensics now used by law enforcement agencies around the nation. 

And there's Dorothy Denning, a distinguished computer science 
professor at Georgetown University in Washington, whose writings have 
set the stage for information security practitioners for the past 27 
years. 


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