2016 AFCEA TechNet Air

Tech Talks in Outreach Pavilion Part 2: "MLS Ecosystem - A Cost-Effective, Efficient, Secure Way of Conducting Joint Operations" (Room Outreach Pavilion Theater)

Approved for 1 CompTIA CEU:  A+, Network+, Security+, and CASP; 1 GIAC CPE

Over the past 30 years’ mission critical data has been stored in separate silos to achieve multilevel security separation required by US Intelligence communities and The Department of Defense.   In the past, data in each level of security was secured by its own network and computer infrastructure. That meant procuring and maintaining 3 separate networks, 3 computer systems and 3 storage systems. Building separate infrastructures for geospatial data is particularly burdensome due to the complexity of operations, file size and ownership, traffic between stove piped systems and excessive cost replicating high performance computer systems, high performance networks and high performance storage. Today Military-Grade, multilevel security (MLS) to protect ever-larger mission-critical data sets and associated computationally demanding analytic workflows is possible with a IDC-503 (DCID 6/3 PL-4 compliant architecture.

During this tech talk, attendees hear about:

-          Why Multilevel Security is vital to the future success of Joint Operations

-          End to end Multilevel security can be achieved for better internal and external Threat Protection, Quickness to Respond and Cost Reduction

-          Examples of MLS architectures currently deployed and several use cases for MLS Solutions