PERSON

Bill Lamb

  • Bill Lamb

  • Bill Lamb was a security engineer in the Security Department at Tandem Computers in Cupertino, California.
  • Technical Collaboration on Safeguard

    • When Randal Schwartz contracted at Tandem to author the Security Administration Guide for DoD Orange Book (C2) evaluation, Bill Lamb was his primary technical counterpart and subject matter expert.
    • As the engineer leading the development side of Safeguard, Bill was the person Randal interviewed most frequently to translate complex security architecture, file permissions, and access controls into the official documentation.
  • See Tandem Computers and the Safeguard C2 Prank and Tandem Computers.
These facts are as Randal recalls them, but much time has passed for most of this. If you find a factual error, please email realmerlyn@gmail.com.