Date: Wed Dec 21 11:14:02 EST 1994
From: coast-request@cs.purdue.edu (Coast Watch maintainers)
Reply-To: coast-request@cs.purdue.edu
Subject: Coast Watch Digest V1 #1  (Corrigendum)
To: important-people@cs.purdue.edu (Coast Watch subscribers)
Precedence: bulk

As with most new publications, sometimes mistakes are made.

During the editing process, we cut several pieces from the newsletter,
including the one that described COAST, and that defined the acronym
"COAST."

As not everyone may be familiar with COAST, and many of you may not
have WWW access to read the full-text explanation, we include a short
description here.

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COAST -- Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Technology -- is a
multiple project, multiple investigator effort in computer security.
We focus our research on real-world needs and limitations, rather than
on purely theoretical investigations.  Our efforts are intended to
function with close ties to researchers and engineers in major
companies and government agencies: designers and end-users of *real*
systems.  By this we mean legacy and future "open" systems, rather
than multi-level or CMW systems of interest to only a narrow,
defense-related community.

We intend to develop COAST as a leading-edge center for research,
testing, and education in computer security.  This process will be
shaped by scientific and pedagogical goals set by the research
personnel, and by advice and guidance from our sponsors.  Our efforts
will build on our established records of innovation and success:
personnel associated with COAST have designed and developed widely
used tools and techniques in computer security, operating systems, and
software engineering.  We also have experience in long-term
collaboration with commercial firms and government agencies. This
experience and focus will help us identify an agenda of interest both
for the academic community and the community of practitioners.

Personnel associated with COAST are also involved with the PCERT
(Purdue Computer Emergency Response Team), organized to respond to
computer security incidents at Purdue University, with the SERC
(Software Engineering Research Center), and with the PADS (Parallel
and Distributed Systems) groups at Purdue.  This provides us with
additional resources, perspective, and breadth of experience.

A more complete description can be found through the WWW page
(http://www.cs.purdue.edu/coast), or via ftp
(ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/COAST/What_is_COAST.ps).

Questions or comments should be directed to:
coast-request@cs.purdue.edu