Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. Tuesday jointly unveiled plans to build a Secure Information Sharing Architecture (SISA) that will let various government agencies and their vendors securely share sensitive information.
The SISA Alliance, which also includes three smaller vendors, will create a set of common IT architectures which grant only authorized personnel and communities the ability to access, store and exchange protected data within secure virtualized networks, according to officials at Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC.
The goal of SISA, according to officials of the sponsoring firms, is to remove silos of data management and data protection that have been commonly instituted within specific government entities.
Cisco will lend its network protection and secure virtualized network links capabilities, EMC will provide its networked storage systems and information lifecycle management tools, and Microsoft will add its identity management software, client system and operating system expertise, the executives said.
The other vendors include Liquid Machines Inc., which will provide content protection expertise, Swan Island Networks, Inc., which specializes in trusted computing environments and Titus Labs, a provider of email and document classification.
The companies agreed to jointly unveil technology developed under the program, and to require that all distributors of the technology be certified under a SISA Alliance program. The program will require such distributors to complete a SISA training program, thereby validating their ability to offer system integration or professional services expertise to support SISA implementation, officials said.
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