Kitesurf....this would have to be Embassy Trust System
tech...."Trustlets"......it's also the same Dr.Aaron
Ferguson as pointed out by Countryboy....
"Much of the research is funded by the National Security Agency (NSA) under the direction of the NSA Visiting Professor, Dr. Aaron J. Ferguson"
"We are very excited about this project and we believe it will give our cadets a first hand appreciation for the challenge of getting information securely into, out of, and across the Department of Defense's Global Information Grid," said Dr. Aaron Ferguson, Department of Defense Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, United States Military Academy.
"The software and hardware provided by Wave supports the Department of Defense funded cadet Capstone project for secure information sharing," he said. "This software and hardware should allow the cadet team to develop a secure, smart card-enabled network enterprise prototype on a 'trusted' platform."
The USMA was recently re-designated by the National Security Agency as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education.
"The project prototype involves strongly authenticating authorized users of MSOffice(R) documents and data applications, allowing those users to process the documents using digital signatures and allowing users to access specific documents or portions of documents based on cryptographically-based role-based access controls," said Dr. Ferguson. "Cadets will be using the technology from Wave and TecSec to demonstrate interoperability with the U.S. government's Common Access Card. There is potential for broad application of these technologies in the existing military data security environment."
"Wave has invested heavily in Trusted Computing and Identity Management hardware and software solutions," said Brian Berger, Wave's executive vice president, marketing and sales. "We believe these technologies could play an important role in making government personal computers more trusted and secure while making the PC applications more secure and easy to manage. We look forward to participation in the project at West Point."
"The use of the Wave technology combined with TecSec's CKM products provide the project with powerful tools to accomplish their objectives," said John Petty, TecSec's Chairman and CEO.
CKM, short for Constructive Key Management, provides enforced access control and data management allowing users to control anything that can be named, from a character, page, image or sound in a document or form to a field in a database.
The approach of differentially encrypting data based on the need-to-know or need-to-share principle allows secure communication among groups of individuals with a variety of roles. Those individuals who have a legitimate need to view information have access to it, while others don't. More information on TecSec's CKM products and technology is available at www.tecsec.com.
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