SIS : Secure Information Sharing

 Goal:

Examine the existing security models and techniques for supporting information sharing among multiple agencies and suggest extension for addressing the new requirement.

Tasks:

• Working with the Northcom staff, identify the secure information sharing requirements.
• Investigate issues in secure information distribution.
• Research technqiues for enforcing and tracking large scale secure information distribution.
• Enhance existing group key management and address the scaling and tracking issues.
• Validate the revised security model and the secure information distribution procedures.
  
  A secure information distribution prototype will be developed and based on SGFR secure instant messaging software, which we have developed in previous NISSC sponsored project. It will help identify the critical features and system design issues.

Sponser:

This project is supported by a grant from NISSC.

Team:

• Dr.C. Edward Chow, PI

• Yu Cai, Ph.D. candidate, Graduate Research Assistant
• Ganesh Godavari, Ph.D. student, Graduate Research Assistant

Current status:

• Literature Survey.

• Doc
• Code

Related Resources:

• Sakai Tools
• Joint Information Systems Committee