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Defence Management Journal

Mature and Secure

June 2008 - The TSCP’s next major initiative is the DSIF, enabling the flow of sensitive data from one network to the next with minimum local configuration and maximum security.

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ATL Defence

Shaping Industry Interaction Through Secure Information Sharing: Part III Putting Theory Into Practice

May/June 2008 - The TSCP has and is publishing systems specifications that allow end points to be trusted.

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SC Magazine

Keeping a Secret

March 2008 - The secure email standard was the result of several years of collaboration among 10 TSCP members: DoD, U.K. Ministry of Defense (MOD), Netherlands MOD, U.K.-based BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce Group, France-based EADS, and U.S.-based Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop.

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ATL Defence

Shaping Industry Interaction Through Secure Information Sharing, Part II: Collaborating to Improve Collaboration

March / April 2008 - Striving to deliver fundamental changes to the way in which organizations collaborate in the aerospace and defense sector through the translation of goals into capabilities, the TSCP faces the unique challenge of collaborating to improve collaboration.

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Search Security

MoD Plans Secure Mail

January 2008 - TSCP's new system proposes to tighten up the links in the supply chain using a public key infrastructure.

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The Register

Military industrial complex aims to revamp email

January 2008 - The secure email specification from the The Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) aims to address email's inherent identity and data transmission security flaws.

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Manufacturing Business Technology

Step by step: Secure email road map meets A&D’s rigorous standards

January 2008 - "The TSCP is transforming email from one of the most extensively used but least trusted collaboration capabilities to one that can be trusted with sensitive information," says Paul Grant, deputy information sharing executive, Information Sharing Office, DoD.

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Washington Technology

Defense community on same page for secure e-mail

January 2008 - Defense officials and contractors in the United States and United Kingdom recently endorsed standards for secure e-mail circulated by the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program, the organization has announced.

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Network World

Military allies' collaboration yields secure email spec

February 2008 – Director of the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program details the multinational group's progress.

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Aerospace Manufacturing

Beyond the password

February 2008 – With proprietary information passing up and down the global aerospace and defence supply chain every day, the need for secure information sharing across the distributed manufacturing enterprise rises significantly. Keith Ward, Outreach Director for the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Programme and Director of Enterprise Security and Identity Management for Northrop Grumman, explains.

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ATL & Defense

Secure Information Sharing: Part I, Shaping Industry Interaction

January/ February 2008 - The TSCP is a rare example of a trust fabric and federation that has come together to figure out how best to implement a complex set of relationships in a digital setting. Lessons learned have come from not only the technical output and proofs of concept but also from the very way in which the TSCP has organized itself to work.

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Goverment Computer News

Secure E-mail standard released

January 11, 2008 – “When you think about this in principle, it sounds straightforward,” [TSCP Director Wayne] Grundy said. “When you try to implement it, it becomes tremendously complicated. That is why nobody has done it before” on a wide scale...The goal of the standard is to extend trusted relationships throughout the government supply chain, which can include thousands of suppliers as well as government entities and their prime contractors.

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Network World

Multinational gov't agencies, vendors set electronic collaboration security plan

January 11, 2008 – The TSCP secure e-mail specification is a public-key infrastructure-based technology that assures the identities of authorized users by means of digital certificates that can encrypt and verify e-mail content.

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CSO

United Defense

December 2007 – “Secure e-mail was one of the first mechanisms our members identified to share information. Culturally, we have for a very long time been asked to avoid using e-mail to share sensitive information externally.  Document sharing with identity federation is about having a data ontology and a set of consolidated policies that allow for the flow of sensitive data from one network to the next with the minimum amount of local configuration and the maximum amount of security. Not having to create accounts and issue credentials to your partners is one of the rare examples of something that saves money and improves security at the same time.”

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