Kabay began learning assembler at age 15 and had learned FORTRAN IV G at McGill University by 1966. In 1976, he received his Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in applied statistics and invertebrate zoology.

SEYMOUR BOSWORTH, CDP, is president of S. Bosworth & Associates, Plainview, New York, a management consulting firm active in computing applications for banking, commerce, and industry. Since 1972 Bosworth has been a contributing editor to all four editions of the Computer Security Handbook, and he has written many articles and lectured extensively about computer security and other technical and managerial subjects. He has been responsible for design and manufacture, system analysis, programming, and operations of both digital and analog computers.
M. E. KABAY, PhD, is Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems at Norwich University, where he is also director of the graduate program in Information Assurance. During his career, he has worked as an operating systems internals and database performance specialist for Hewlett-Packard, an operations manager at a large service bureau, and a consultant in operations, performance, and security.