Secure Information Sharing Architecture
Share Information Securely, Collaborate Effectively.
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The Secure Information Sharing Architecture (SISA) breaks through information sharing barriers with a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution that allows agencies to communicate and collaborate while protecting sensitive internal content. It consolidates disparate systems and networks into a cost-effective infrastructure that secures, governs, and accelerates the distribution of mission-critical knowledge.
SISA combines products from Cisco, EMC, and Microsoft with best-of-breed innovations from Liquid Machines, Swan Island Networks, and Titus Labs to address the urgent need for sharing sensitive materials across organizational, IT, and jurisdictional boundaries. With SISA, organizations can participate with confidence in communities of trust because they have the controls they need to precisely govern how their information is accessed and used. SISA lets them determine how, when, where, and with whom they will share their materials according to the requirements of the mission, not the constraints of technology or resources.
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| Keep Information Secure While Sharing |
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Information is the lifeblood of government. Be it to respond – or prevent – an emergency, or simply to effectively serve citizens.
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Sharing that information efficiently and securely has become increasingly complex, especially with constantly evolving and expanding objectives. To help make this universal goal a reality, governments need a flexible, secure, and standards-based solution. Yet huge challenges stand in the way. Stovepiped systems. Islands of incompatible information. Cultural, communication and budgetary issues that prevent governments from sharing what they know in order to achieve what they’ve been entrusted to do.
Secure, Information-Sharing Architecture for Communities of Trust
The Secure Information Sharing Architecture (SISA) breaks through information-sharing barriers with a COTS solution that allows agencies to share and collaborate while protecting sensitive internal content. It enables government to consolidate disparate systems and networks into a cost-effective infrastructure to help secure, govern, and accelerate the distribution of mission-critical knowledge. SISA combines products from Cisco, EMC and Microsoft with best-of-breed innovations from smaller companies to address the urgent need for sharing sensitive materials across organizational, IT and jurisdictional boundaries.
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| First Step in Information Sharing Within Communities of Interest |
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Today’s dynamic operational environments rely on close collaboration among communities of interest – with goals as diverse as peacekeeping, humanitarian response, and commerce. Until recently, security constraints forced each partner to build and maintain their own infrastructure. When partners needed to share information, they typically had to approach someone they knew personally. “In the early days of information sharing, trust was based on personal relationships,”says Howard Schmidt, President and CEO of R&H Security Consulting, LLC, and former Special Adviser for Cyberspace Security. “You worked with someone, gave them a little information with the understanding they would protect it, and then they shared their information with you.”
The establishment of government Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) underscored the need for a more institutionalized process for information sharing – one that could survive longer than personal relationships. “Government needs automated systems that ensure that information gets to the right person, at the right time, on any device,” says Schmidt.
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| The Essential Human Ingredient of Information Sharing |
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Ask what’s needed to encourage information sharing in federal government, and most answers will focus on technology, such as access control and data protection. However, there’s another prerequisite for successful interagency collaboration that’s personal, not technical. “People who don’t ordinarily work together need to develop trust before they’re comfortable sharing information,” says Gerard McNulty, federal specialist for Cisco. “The need for communities of trust among public- and private-sector organizations is growing, both for daily operations and emergencies that require complex response.”
In general, trust develops over time as individuals share information and see that it is being used as agreed. Federal government can foster trust by providing employees with the tools they need to interact more frequently and with greater confidence.
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| What You Need to Confidently Share Storage |
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The Secure Information-Sharing Architecture (SISA) facilitates collaboration within a community of interest. It does this by enabling members to dynamically share information when the need arises, with the assurance that their information is protected and is only made available on a need-to-know-basis. The basic approach is to consolidate previously separate networks into a common, cost-effective infrastructure that maintains the security of independent networks.
Special precautions are needed for communities of interest to securely share the same storage. Specifically, members need assurance that each partner’s information remains secure as it travels over the storage area network (SAN), that each partner’s data remains separate from other partners’ data, even on shared storage media and that unauthorized users cannot view or copy files stored on shared workstations.
One of the four layers of SISA (the other three are access control, content protection, and watchdog services), data protection services addresses all three requirements.
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| Learn more about Secure Information Sharing Architecture with High Point Solutions |
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