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Anakam.SCE™
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Identity-Based Access Control to Web-based Collaboration Tools
“Whether it is assisting the intelligence and law enforcement communities or seeking to protect healthcare records and clinical messaging; Anakam has revolutionized the market through our ability to limit data access from source to destination.” Doug Satterwhite, Director of Intelligence Solutions, Anakam
Overview
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Anakam developed the Anakam.SCE™ Secure Collaboration Environment as the first step in a new suite of tools that enable broader application of the Anakam.TFA® Two Factor Authentication toolset across the enterprise. Anakam.SCE enables enterprise collaboration applications like instant messaging, wikis, and document management, to logically isolate their data in a manner to prevent unauthorized access to the data unless specific authority has been given to access it. Now, trusted connections can be established in the business world wherein only those with authoritative need to know can get access to the data within an application and the collaboration applications can be staged to support numerous unique information access areas.
Enabling Enterprise Collaborations
Anakam.SCE™ Secure Collaboration Environment is a tool set that interacts with standards-based enterprise applications (like XMPP-based instant messaging tools, or Java-enabled wikis) to create differentiable environments based upon authorization and access controls. It can be integrated with Anakam.TFA or any other enterprise authentication tool sets governing who has access to what data in what applications. Security managers and data owners have immediate control over the isolation of unique data elements – whether it is a thread in an instant messaging conversation or wiki, or a document in a document management system.
Organizations that implement Anakam.SCE range from government to the healthcare industry. In each case, they have a series of tools used across the enterprise for which they want to be able to find an easy to manage mechanism to control access to data based upon specific permissions of an individual. Anakam.SCE can also be integrated with enterprise encryption solutions to provide even greater information rights management and digital rights management control.
A: Anakam.SCE™ can support multiple Operating Systems including Microsoft Windows, LINUX, UNIX, and Solaris. Anakam.SCE™ can also support nearly any commercial, government, or proprietary productivity application. This includes desktop applications such as Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Adobe Acrobat; email tools such as MS Outlook and Thunderbird; web browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox; and Enterprise Content Management solutions such as Open Text Livelink, EMC2 Documentum, Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM) system, and open source collaboration tools such as Drupal.
Q: How does the typical Anakam.SCE™ implementation proceed?A: Anakam typically takes the following steps in implementing Anakam.SCE™:
- Conduct a review and validation of customer security policy and requirements.
- Instantiate customer security policy in the Anakam.SCE™ Security Rules Engine.
- Establish a Test Environment that matches the basic capabilities of the customer operational environment.
- Install SCE modules into the Test Environment and make any necessary changes based on any customer's unique requirements.
- If required, develop any new SCE modules that are required, such as modules for proprietary applications.
- Conduct System Testing followed by a Pilot of Anakam.SCE™.
- Incorporate any required changes and operationally implement SCE.
Often, government customers require specialized Certification and Accreditation (C&A) as part of the implementation process. This process is conducted in parallel by Anakam.
Q: How does Anakam.SCE™ control information flow?A: Anakam.SCE™ uses a variety of patented techniques and processes to ensure that information is only sent to or made accessible to those who are allowed access in accordance with the customer’s security policy.
For example, before information is ever sent, Anakam.SCE™ checks to determine if the designated recipient is allowed access to information contained within a document or within an instant message thread. If not, the information is never sent and the sender is notified.
In another example, Anakam.SCE™ can control data elements within a document or a wiki page. If the customer security policy so allows, a document can be sent that essentially redacts the information that cannot be sent. In the case of a wiki page, the user will only be allowed to see the information that he/she is allowed to see, allowing for the establishment of a multi-classification level wiki page.
A: Anakam.SCE™ is designed to assist customers in meeting the standards and regulations that protect classified, restricted, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI), and privacy information.
Examples include the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Director of Central Intelligence Directive (DCID) 6/3 Protections Level 3 and 4, Community of Interest Level 6, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) Act, and NIST SP 800-53.
A: There are no other companies that provide such a capability. Anakam.SCE™ was specifically designed to support a broad array of Operating Systems, Desktop Applications, and Enterprise Content Management systems across both a commercial and government customer base. Our breadth of experience across government, healthcare, e-commerce, and the financial industry uniquely position Anakam to understand how information sharing requirements have an underlying common foundation, but markedly different methods of implementation.