You may have seen some suggestions that cyber security started with the first antivirus, and a date given of 1987 as the first year of commercial antivirus.
While I can see the argument for Creeper and Reaper as a start date, I can’t bring myself to agree. Either we point at arbitrary events to describe when cyber security started, which could take us back to 1966 , 1971 , or even 2003 when the US government established the National Cyber Security Division.Cyber security began between 1970 and 1972 with the publications of the Ware and Anderson reports.
The cyber domain is ‘a global domain within the information environment consisting of the interdependent networks of information, technology infrastructures and resident data, including the internet, telecommunications networks, computer systems, and embedded processors and controllers’. That leaves us with a couple of reports which were the first to formally consider the aspects of security.Security Controls for Computer Systems: Report of Defense Science Board Task Force on Computer Security