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by nickpsecurity 3427 days ago
The paper from the NPS in 2002 referenced Air Force as inventors of configuration management. As military, they might have had security implications in it. Found some pay dirt.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/650214.pdf

https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/afips/1967/5069/00...

First is a retrospect on original document. It referenced accounting procedures for the artifacts. Makes sense they'd look at it from accounting standpoint as that's what they did with other things. Ware Report did that, too, for early INFOSEC. Lacking details from manual, I found a follow-up in 1967 that describes key details on p4 under procedural data esp concerning changes. Sounds like an early form of SCM security. I'll have to try to find the computerized one later on as I have a feeling it independently happened in mainframes or minicomputers outside INFOSEC field.

Btw, your link to Zeigenhagen was dead when I tried it. DTIC to the rescue:

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a417577.pdf