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Cisco, EMC, Microsoft Join to Help Safeguard Sensitive Government Information
 TMCnet Contributing Editor
In an attempt to help protect and share sensitive government information, Cisco, EMC Corp. and Microsoft ( News - Alert) Corp. have come together to form an alliance of technology vendors that will offer comprehensive, security-enhanced, multi-vendor, end-to-end information-sharing technology architecture.
The Secure Information Sharing Architecture (SISA) integrates applications, information infrastructure, and networking technologies to help protect customers' existing information technology (IT) investments.
Since 9/11, U.S. governmental agencies are concentrating on protecting sensitive content from being lost or stolen. Cisco, EMC ( News - Alert) and Microsoft, with support from other industry leaders, have set up the SISA Alliance to develop IT architectures that permit only authorized personnel access to specific information while easing the management of shared, protected information across trusted communities.
"While government is attempting to break down the barriers between organizations to enable information sharing, it is also struggling with numerous high-profile data loss incidents. Breaking down barriers between government and partner organizations will require better confidence in the ability to keep information in the hands of only the appropriate users," said Steve Cooper, former chief information officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in a statement to the press.
"I applaud Cisco, EMC and Microsoft for coming together to provide us with a multivendor architecture for sharing information across different agencies so government agencies can collaborate better and respond more effectively where and when they are needed."
Cisco, EMC and Microsoft will facilitate sharing of information contained in disparate IT infrastructures.
With its networking solutions, Cisco will offer network protection, security-enhanced virtualized network links, and data protection features for sharing sensitive information across the network platform.
EMC will offer networked storage systems, information management and security software that provides a flexible information infrastructure for storing, managing and helping protect critical and sensitive data.
Microsoft will lend its identity management, client and network operating systems, and a collaboration framework that helps keep content in the hands of authorized users.
The SISA Alliance is also comprised of technology vendors including: Liquid Machines in Waltham, Mass., which provides solutions that, improve the SISA content-protection capabilities by extending the Microsoft Digital Rights Management technology, Swan Island Networks, Inc. in Portland, Ore. which designs and operates sensitive information-sharing systems and Titus Labs in Ottawa, Canada which offers information labeling and classification solutions that determine how content protection should be applied.
Niladri Sekhar Nath is a contributing writer for TMCnet covering telecommunications, service providers and networking. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.
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