Demonstration of a Cross Security Domain Service Management Capability for Federated Missions

Author

Dimou, I. ; Wietgrefe, H. ; Van Selm, M. ; Janovszki, L.

Author_Institution

Service Manage. & Control Service Line, NATO Commun. & Inf. Agency (NCIA), The Hague, Netherlands

fYear

2014

fDate

6-8 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

184

Lastpage

191

Abstract

Security domains partition military Communications and Information Systems (CIS) to enable the handling of data payloads at different confidentiality levels. Information exchange between security domains is in most cases extremely restrictive or even entirely prohibited. While this protection principle holds for user traffic, it significantly hinders the unified management of networks and IT systems from a single platform. The current paper addresses this problem by introducing a vendor-agnostic method to interface management traffic across domain boundaries, and presents the results of a trial conducted at NATO Response Force CIS Exercise Steadfast Cobalt 2013.

Keywords

data handling; military communication; military computing; security of data; telecommunication network management; telecommunication traffic; IT systems; Information exchange; NATO Response Force CIS Exercise Steadfast Cobalt 2013; confidentiality levels; cross security domain service management capability; data payloads handling; interface management traffic; military communications and information systems; protection principle; security domains; unified network management; user traffic; vendor-agnostic method; Information exchange; Java; Prototypes; Quality of service; Security; Servers; XML; FMN; IOSS; cross-domain; network management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2014.36

Filename

6956757