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Security:
Network Associates, Infodata
Provide Protection For ARDA
Network Associates Inc, a leading provider of intrusion prevention
solutions,
announced that the Advanced Research and Development Agency (ARDA) has
selected Network Associates Laboratories and Infodata Systems Inc, a leader in
IT services for content management, to research and build a prototype document
control system to provide high-assurance access controls to sensitive content
that supports the Intelligence Community (IC). This effort is being supported
by the Advanced Countermeasures for Insider Threat program within ARDA.
Network Associates Laboratories and Infodata will work together to develop
next generation access control models for precise, flexible and accurate
policy expression in a document-centric environment. The companies will
jointly implement and enforce the models by developing an architecture for
high assurance and trusted enforcement on end-user computer systems (including
COTS systems) and software technologies for rapidly injecting the approach
into real-world products that can be deployed within the IC.
"Today's technologies are limited with respect to the flexibility and
expressive power of the access and usage policies they can support and the
degree of assurance that software-based enforcement mechanisms can provide,"
said Dr. Roshan Thomas, senior research scientist and principle investigator
for Network Associates Laboratories. "Network Associates Laboratories and
Infodata have been given a unique opportunity to raise the bar on innovative
technology and demonstrate the latest advances in addressing content security
within document-centric environments."
Infodata solutions are built on a platform that consists of powerful
content
review, content assembly and publishing, and content security services that
operate from within electronic content management (ECM) systems. The platform
allows agencies to manipulate content in accordance with critical business
processes while complying with demanding security regulations. This capability
is critical for government agencies that cannot risk separating their content
libraries from their critical mission activities. For the project, Infodata
will employ its content security technology, Signet, to create a highly
secure, persistent protection environment for multiple types of content. From
the environment, agencies can make distributions securely, both internally and
externally to the ECM system, with access falling within the restrictions of
each recipient's access control permission set.
"With more than 35 years of content management domain expertise primarily
directed to the IC, and a robust Content Security solution, we are ideally
poised to assist Network Associates in delivering state-of-the-art research
and a demonstrable environment that improves the secure dissemination of
critical content," said Bruce Morton, vice president and general manager of
Intel for Infodata.
By leveraging the resources of Infodata from the inception of the project,
Network Associates Laboratories will ensure that its approach is driven by and
grounded in real-world document handling scenarios. Network Associates
Laboratories will also work with Infodata to develop a high-assurance
prototype that integrates the Laboratories research with Infodata's suite of
document management products in order to open up strong technology transfer
and commercialization paths for the project's results.
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