Dynamic Cross Domain Information Sharing - A Concept Paper on Flexible Adaptive Policy Management

Abstract

Information exchange across domains is essential for today's asymmetric warfare environment to make mission-critical information available to war fighters, no matter where it exists and when it becomes available. Dissemination of new information needs to carefully balance the need-to-know by consumers with the responsibility-to-share by providers. The right amount of sharing governed by policies defining what information can cross domain boundaries, when, and under what circumstances, is highly context-dependent and dynamic. Dynamic management of those policies is a key challenge. This paper describes the design of concepts and services to support dynamic lifecycle management and deconfliction of policies governing cross domain information flows. We describe how the design provides scalable, on-the-fly reconfiguration of both local and cross domain security policies while confining sensitive policy information to their respective local domains.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA556029

Entities

People

  • Azer Bestavros
  • Jonathan Webb
  • Joseph Loyall
  • Michael Atighetchi
  • Michael J. Mayhew
  • Partha Pal

Organizations

  • RTX

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Boundaries
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Science
  • Control Systems
  • Cross Domain
  • Databases
  • Detectors
  • Environment
  • Information Exchange
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Reliability
  • Security
  • Security Classification Guides
  • Standards
  • Validation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Software Engineering.