The Secure Information Sharing Architecture (SISA) breaks through information-sharing barriers with a COTS solution that allows agencies to communicate and collaborate while protecting sensitive internal content. It enables government to consolidate disparate systems and networks into a cost-effective infrastructure to help secure, govern, and accelerate the distribution of mission-critical knowledge.

SISA combines products from Cisco, EMC, and Microsoft with best-of-breed solutions from  Liquid Machines, Swan Island Networks, and Titus Labs to address the urgent need for sharing sensitive materials across organizational, IT, and jurisdictional boundaries. With SISA, organizations can participate with confidence in communities of trust because they have the controls they need to precisely govern how their information is accessed and used.

SISA lets information owners determine how, when, where, and with whom they will share their materials – according to the requirements of the mission, not the constraints of technology or resources.

SISA Is:

• Real. A fully defined architecture and implementation roadmap based on current products.

• Proven. Based on COTS products, industry standards, and accepted best practices and backed by over two years of development by a formal alliance between Cisco, EMC, and Microsoft and other IT innovators.

• Resilient. It’s designed to requirements for multi-national military environments. It implements policy-driven defense-in-depth. It extends controls across the entire data path of information. It simplifies compliance and maintains secure audit trails.

• Agile. Agencies can automate authentication and authorization according to their policies. They can revise, limit, or withhold access as partners, roles, and responsibilities change. They can make services and information available as their circumstances demand.

• Sustainable. It lets government organizations address burning platform issues immediately. Then expand their information-sharing capabilities in progressive stages.

• Affordable. It builds on widely deployed infrastructure agencies already have.

• Crucial. It started when government asked industry to “get together and show us how to safely collaborate and exchange access.” SISA is our response to that request.