The aim of the Secure Information Sharing Infrastructure (Sisa) project is to create a system that allows data to be shared between the agencies, but in a way that ensures that only the people who are authorised to access data are able to do so.<\/p>\n
Cisco Systems, Microsoft and EMC will provide commercial, off-the-shelf products, with smaller vendors contributing specific technologies. Cisco will focus on secure networks and data protection, Microsoft on identity management and OSes, and EMC on storage.<\/p>\n
Also participating are Liquid Machines on content protection, Swan Island Networks on information-sharing architectures and Titus Labs on information labelling and classification.<\/p>\n
The business alliance between the companies will be managed by Addx.<\/p>\n
A report released in 2004 by the 9\/11 Commission, which investigated the terrorist attacks, found that US intelligence agencies had cumbersome information-sharing practices that hampered their ability to counter terrorism.<\/p>\n
The vendors' Web site gave scenarios of how the Sisa system might be used. In one, a law enforcement agency raids an apartment and finds documents and financial ledgers in a foreign language.<\/p>\n
The material could be posted on an information-sharing site to be viewed by an investigator in another country.<\/p>\n
The companies also gave a general view of how a person would be authenticated and access information from the network.<\/p>\n
A Sisa administrator at a command centre will access a user's profile in Microsoft's Active Directory, then establish a VPN to let the user access the files that they are permitted to view.<\/p>\n
Cisco Security Agent governs the user's access to specific resources, such as write capabilities or a USB device, and the contents of e-mails and documents are protected with Liquid Machines and Microsoft's Rights Management Services (RMS).<\/p>\n
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