The U.S. government has been in the cybersecurity business for a long time. In 1968, the CIA added a computer security subcommittee to the U.S. Intelligence Board, a governmentwide body convened by the CIA to coordinate intelligence efforts.
The agendas, minutes and reports, with some redactions, are available via the CIA’s declassified CREST database, which was recently put online. The documents show the intelligence community beginning to grapple with many of the problems of access control, physical security, contractor access, data verification and other issues that continue to plague government agencies today.
