SECURE INFORMATION SHARING

Today’s administrative and business environment calls for information sharing on an unprecedented scale, among federal government agencies, businesses and citizens. Such sharing creates all kinds of opportunities to simplify, unify and otherwise improve the performance of government. Secure communications or messaging, based on identity management solutions, enables substantial cost savings, streamlined processes and faster communication of vital information – to the benefit of governments and citizens. The President has demanded that Secure Information Sharing with privacy be a priority in government. Privacy in Information Sharing demands encryption of the data shared with extraordinary ease of use among disparate organizations whether they be federal agencies (horizontal sharing), or state, local, private sector organizations (vertical sharing), as well as with foreign governments. Meeting the Presidential mandate for secure information sharing has proved challenging and critical. Desktop email, mobile device email, webmail, and instant messaging are the most widely used applications in the digital world for sharing information. Users require solutions that enable them to secure both their messages and attachments. They desire tools that allow them to easily and quickly communicate securely with any other user. Organizations expect solutions that are easy to deploy and manage, that seamlessly blend with their current IT infrastructure, are auditable, and that can adapt to future investments in security technologies.

THE PROBLEM

• Disparate messaging systems and disparate implementations do not work together
• Multiple levels of authentication are needed across public and private organizations
• Revocation of users’ credentials are not easy and dependable and multiple security policies cannot be easily adhered to
• Secure messages cannot be transmitted between all network environments
• Current approaches do not easily scale
• Current approaches are not economical
• Communities of interest cannot be created dynamically and easily
• The solution must encompass authorization and access control
• Confidentiality, Integrity and Non-Repudiation must be provided
• Policies must be enforced automatically
• Auditing and reporting are required

THE SOLUTION

Secure information sharing is made possible by a technology called “Federated Authentication.” This is defined as “sharing of identification credentials among several entities.” Trust is transferred from one identifying and authenticating entity to another. In other words, if two entities wish to grant access to their internal systems to each others’ employees, they need to “federate” their identity management systems and “trust” that each other will validate the identity and roles of their own employees.

Sigaba’s patented Federated Authentication Service Technology (FAST), built on the award-winning SigabaNet™ platform, is the first and most comprehensive method for enabling secure information sharing. This easy-to-deploy technology enables enterprises and Governments to securely and dynamically add, manage, and delete partners with just a few keystrokes.

Sigaba’s secure applications and platform provide the solution that can work with most existing architectures without the need overhaul current infrastructure.

SIGABANET SECURITY ARCHITECTURE PLATFORM

SigabaNet™ is a robust, scalable, and flexible platform of services that enables a universe of secure applications. This core technology provides easy-to-implement administrative components, such as policies, resources, and reporting. Sigaba’s services (keys, authentication, policies, user management, etc.) are the building blocks that can be used to enable security in any application, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain, and product lifecycle management (PLM).

SIGABA SECURE MESSAGING APPLICATIONS

Sigaba has a set of secure messaging applications that can be used out-of-the-box. These applications are easy to administer, install, deploy, and use. Millions of desktops currently utilize secure messaging solutions from Sigaba … for good reason.

Sigaba Secure Email™
Sigaba Secure Email is the premier enterprise secure messaging solution for businesses, financial institutions, Governments, healthcare, and other organizations with a compelling need to protect confidential information. It is the first email solution to provide secure ad hoc business communication that is as simple as traditional, non-secure email. Read more...

Sigaba Secure Statements™
For end-to-end secure document delivery, Sigaba Secure Statements is the leading solution for creating, managing, and sending electronic statements. Read more...

Sigaba Secure IM™ (Instant Messaging)
Sigaba Secure IM is the first truly secure instant messaging and presence solution built exclusively for the enterprise. Sigaba Secure IM allows Government users to conduct secure multi-user conversations from their desktops and other platforms, enabling easy information sharing within and among workgroups, between agencies, or with the nation’s citizens. Read more...

Sigaba Secure Messaging for Mobile Devices™
For organizations with the need to protect confidential information, Sigaba Secure Messaging for Mobile Devices is the leading enterprise secure messaging solution that enables users of mobile devices, such as PDAs, to send and receive messages securely, from the beginning to the end of transmission. With the wide acceptance and growing use of mobile device technology, organizations realize that they have no option but to incorporate it into their infrastructure and ensure all transmitted messages are secure and reliable. Read more...

Sigaba Secure Paging™
Is a secure messaging technology that is of paramount importance to military, first responders and other emergency care providers who cannot safely operate mobile telephones and PDA’s in proximity to sensitive equipment because of the electromagnetic interference caused by these devices, but can safely carry pagers. Read more...

Sigaba has 100% COTS solution software, which meets the challenges of secure information sharing which can be deployed immediately and rapidly, and requires minimal resources and minimal training, while allowing government and private sector affiliates to leverage their existing infrastructure, building on what is already in place and providing a platform for future growth. Sigaba’s enterprise secure messaging software with federated authentication and distributed key service architecture provides an immediate solution for an enterprise-wide secure messaging system which satisfies the Presidential mandate, and at the same time fits into existing IT architectures as an evolutionary solution for distributed information sharing.