DEFINITION OF SECURITY AGREEMENTS PROVIDING FOR THE INTERAGENCY USE OF REMOTE TERMINALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89B01354R000100090009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 15, 1971
• Content Type: MEMO

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UUIU IUCN I IAL
15 January 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, Computer Security Subcommittee
SUBJECT : Definition of Security Agreements
Providing for the Interagency Use
of Remote Terminals
1. Recent developments within the Central Intelligence Agency
have surfaced the problem of defining the security responsibility
entailed when one agency connects remote terminals to a central
processing unit of another agency giving the former access to the
latter's data base.
2. When an interagency remote terminal hook-up is effected,
should security controls for the remote terminal be dictated by the
agency using the remote terminal or the agency providing the CPU
and the data base? If the agency using the terminal dictates the
security procedures, does the security officer of this agency certify
that the operational procedures of the terminal provide adequate
security? If the agency owning the CPU determines the security
control required for remote terminal use, does the CPU owner
security officer assume responsibility for the security of the remote
terminal? Who is responsible for determination of cause when a
compromise of classified information results from this interagency
hook-up?
3. Attached is a Memorandum of Agreement, which the
undersigned feels would resolve the above questions and facilitate
the installation of such interagency terminals.
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4. The undersigned requests that this issue be brought before
the USIB Computer Security Subcommittee for discussion and con-
currence.
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MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT
Pertaining to interagency use of remote terminals, we the
undersigned, the designated representatives of the below listed
Intelligence Community agencies to the USIB Computer Security
Subcommittee, agree to abide by the following security control
procedures for the interagency use of remote terminals; i.e., when
a remote terminal from one USIB member agency is connected to
the CPU and classified data base of another USIB member agency:
1. Security controls of remote terminal operation
will be specified by the owner of the central processing
unit to which the terminal is connected.
2. These security control procedures will be con-
veyed in writing to the security officer of the terminal
owner agency who will assure these procedures are
followed and certify same to the security officer of the
central processing unit owner.
3. Any compromise of classified data resulting
from this interagency remote terminal connection will
be resolved through the joint efforts of the security
officers of the agencies involved.
CIA Member U. S. Navy Member
Department of State Member U. S. Air Force Member
DIA Member Federal Bureau of Investigation
Member
U. S. Army Member Atomic Energy Commission
Member
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