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CISR) is developing a comprehensive program in INFOS-EC education and research that can become a resource for DoN/DoD and U.S Government in terms of educational materials and research. A security track within the Com-puter Science curriculum has been established. Its philo-sophical core is the abstract notion of conceptually complete security mechanism, the Reference Monitor Con-cept. Building upon a core curriculum of computer science and engineering, the security courses convey vital concepts and techniques associated with INFOSEC today. (U) Twenty-five years ago, computers were still largely monolithic mainframes, physically isolated from cyber-predators and closely tended by dedicated staffs of techni-cal and administrative personnel. Even then, when comput