Cross-Domain Border Protection

Information needs to be shared between differing communities with differing security levels. Information can be shared by allowing access to the data within a domain or transferring the information between domains. If access is permitted within a specific domain, proprietary, domain specific information must be protected. Only the information authorized to be shared must be accessed. When information is transferred between domains, guarantees must be put in place to protect information at a higher security classification from being transferred to a domain with a lower security level. The problem is two fold. How do you protect the boundaries and only allow authorized access? And secondly, once access is authorized, how do you protect information that is not intended for disclosure? Boundaries may be defined between any number of entities including countries, federal agencies, organizations within a single agency, or even partitions within a single database. At some point, a person or process may need information from an environment in which an individual is not routinely granted access. The intended result is to grant access to the required information while protecting all other information.

VDTG personnel have been involved in Cross Domain Solutions Definition, Design and Implementation for over ten years.

VDTG personnel understand the interoperability issues associated with the layering of security technologies to implement appropriate boundary protections as well as authentication and authorization techniques.

VDTG engineers actively participate in international and internet standards bodies and understand the issues involved in developing boundary technologies.

As we move toward Network Centric solutions, data and boundary protection techniques will evolve and VDTG is currently participating in the definition and implementation of these evolving technologies.

VDTG understands the policy implications of moving data across boundaries.