Collaborations in Internet Security: Federal Initiatives
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This project is just getting off the ground.
This is part of the FNC and the Privacy and Security Working Group (PSWG).
Seed money from the National Performance Review, Inforamtion Technology
Innovation Fund.
Seeks to implement the FISP.
An open process. We seek help and participation from all interested parties.
Agencies inolved:
- ARPA
- DOD
- DOE
- NASA
- NIH
- NSF
- NIST
- and others
Questions to Particpants
- Overall view of security risks?
- Existing security infrastructure capability?
- Share?
- other technologies that would be helpful?
- any restrictions?
Time Line
- Six months: Report on current security efforts
- Nine months: Testbed demonstration efforts are initiated
- Twelve months: demonstrations
The Project is currently funded for one year.
Possible area of work
- single sign on Systems
- Inter Realm Kerberos
- public key infrastucture
- digital signatures
- performance measurement
- cryptographic API
- key recovery
Infrastructure
- Security trouble tickets
- Educational resources
- Security policies
- site evaluations by CERT
- Secure code distribution, config control, mirror sites
- Freeware/Shareware licenses and rights
- Privacy of participants
- NIST accredited labs
There is no way to have the same security technology work for all types of
systems.
Areas of Interest
- privacy
- authenticaion
- authorization
- message integrity
- non-repudiation
- assured service
- auditing
All of these things are host issues. Other devices also play a role, but
the hosts have to be dealt with.
For more information, send mail to exedir@fnc.gov or check http://www.fnc.gov/cis_page.html.