Donn Parker

Name: Donn B. Parker

Born: Unknown

Computer-related contributions

• Information security researcher and consultant.
• Spent 30 years at SRI International working in information and computer security.
• Proposed the Parkerian Hexad, six atomic and orthogonal elements of information security that extend the traditional model of the CIA triad (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) (2002).

Significant publications

• Crime by Computer (1976).
• Ethical Conflicts in Computer Science and Technology (1979).
• Fighting Computer Crime (1983).
• Computer Security Management (1983).
• Ethical Conflicts in Information and Computer Science, Technology, and Business (1990).
• Computer Security Reference Book (1993).
• Fighting Computer Crime, a New Framework for Protecting Information (1998).

Honors and awards

• Fellow, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) (2008).
• Information Systems Security Association's Individual Achievement Award (1992).
• National Computer System Security Award (1994).
• MIS Infosecurity News' Lifetime Achievement Award (1996).
• Named to the Information Systems Security Association's Hall of Fame (2000).