Public Key Infrastructure Roadmap for the Department of Defense

Abstract

The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Roadmap establishes the enterprise-wide end-state for the Department of Defense (DoD) PKI and outlines the evolution strategy and timeline for the availability of the Department's PKI capabilities. Also, it identifies critical risk areas that must be addressed, summarizes measures that will be undertaken to mitigate those risks, and highlights roles and responsibilities of organizations involved with its realization. This document is an update to the DoD PKI Roadmap (Version 3.0). It provides an updated perspective on the overall evolution of the Department's PKI program, and addresses new requirements identified in the 12 August 2000 ASD C3I Memorandum including integration with the Common Access Card (CAC). Achieving Information Superiority in the highly interconnected, interdependent, shared-risk DoD environment requires that the Department's Information Assurance (IA) capabilities be applied within a management framework that considers the pervasiveness of information as a vital aspect of warfighting and business operations. The technical strategy that underlies DoD IA is Defense in Depth, in which layers of defense are used to achieve our security objectives. The DoD PKI is a supporting layer of this strategy, providing a vital element for a secure IA posture for the Defense Information Infrastructure (DII). The DoD PKI strategy recognizes that a traditional, Government-developed implementation will not be able to keep pace with a strategy based on commercial technology and services. It recognizes that the DoD PKI must employ an incremental, evolutionary approach using open standards, based on commercially available products and services that can keep pace with the technology rollover and constantly evolving applications and standards inherent in the Information Technology (IT) environment. With that, it must still maintain appropriate levels of security, embracing secure interoperability both within the DoD and externally wi

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 18, 2000
Accession Number
ADA526958

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Assistant Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Communication Channels
  • Computer Programs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Governments
  • Identification
  • Identification Systems
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Local Area Networks
  • National Governments
  • Procurement
  • Simulators
  • Test Facilities

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Economics
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.