Multi-Level Security Cannot Realise NEC Objectives

Multi-Level Security (MLS) is often viewed as the holy grail of information security, especially in those environments where information of different classifications is being processed. In this paper we argue that MLS cannot facilitate the right balance between need-to-protect and duty-to-share as required for a Network Enabled Capability (NEC)...

A methodology for the structured security analysis of interconnections

Effective and efficient cooperation within future military operations increasingly requires the sharing of information among coalition partners and other organisations, as envisioned by the NATO Network-Enabled Capabilities (NNEC) study. It is therefore necessary that military communication infrastructures can be interconnected to facilitate the...

Towards Multi-Level Security for NATO Collective Mission Training – a White Paper

Distributed simulation is rapidly becoming a necessity for collective mission training. With missions being joint and combined, we will never fight alone. Thus we need to train together, within and between nations. However, in any such scenario it is likely that some or all of the information may be classified at some level and need protection,...

A Secure NEC-enabling Architecture: Disentangling Infrastructure, Information and Security

The NATO Network-Enabled Capability (NNEC) study envisions effective and efficient cooperation among the coalition partners in missions. This requires information sharing and efficient deployment of IT assets. Current military communication infrastructures are mostly deployed as stand-alone networked information systems operating at the System...

Security Shift in Future Network Architectures

In current practice military communication infrastructures are deployed as stand-alone networked information systems. Network-Enabled Capabilities (NEC) and combined military operations lead to new requirements which current communication architectures cannot deliver. This paper informs IT architects, information architects and security...

Snow Leopard cloud: A multi-national education training and experimentation cloud and its security challenges

Military/civilian education training and experimentation networks (ETEN) are an important application area for the cloud computing concept. However, major security challenges have to be overcome to realize an ETEN. These challenges can be categorized as security challenges typical to any cloud and multi-level security challenges specific to an...

Multi Level Security within Collective Mission Simulation Architectures

Collective simulation is proving an important driver to establish objectives within application areas such as development, training and exercises. However, the simulation models exist within different security domains and these models need to be protected while information needs to be shared between the different simulators. Therefore there is...