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ACRONYM QUICKSCAN
AFCEA – Armed Forces Communications
and Electronics Association
CDD – Capabilities Description
Document
COTS – Commercial off-the-Shelf
CPD – Capabilities Production
Document
DoD – Department of Defense
FCS – Future Combat System
GOTS – Government off-the-Shelf
ICWG – Interface Communications
Working Group
IEEE – Institute of Electrical &
Electronics Engineers
JNN-N – Joint Network Node-
Network
JTRS – Joint Tactical Radio
Systems
KPPs – Key Performance Parameters
NCOW – Network Centric Operations
and Warfare
NCES – Network Centric Enterprise
Services
NetOps – Network Operations
NMS – Network Management
Systems
TCM N&S – TRADOC Capabilities
Manager Network & Services
TNOSC – Theater Network
Operations and Securities Center
TRADOC – Training And Doctrine
Command
WIN-T – Warfighter Information
Network-Tactical
WNW – Wideband Networking
Waveform
52 Summer 2008
DiD strategy
ensures security
across
By Deryk Gannon
Ensuring tactical information
reaches the right people at the right
time is essential to the Warfighter’s
safety and mission-related needs.
Project Manager, Warfighter
Information Network-Tactical will
implement a Defense in-Depth
strategy to ensure the integrity of this
information. The initial and focal DiD
strategy for WIN-T is to segregate
and limit users’ access to the wide
area network and network infrastructure
by using a Global Information
Grid Colorless Core. This colorless
core will ensure all user traffic is High
Assurance Internet Protocol
Encryptor encrypted, as it transits
through the WIN-T backbone.
Defense in Depth is a coordination of
multiple security layers, such as
perimeter, enclave, and host levels;
alert correlation and countermeasures
used in response to cyber threats and
to provide protection of information
across an enterprise network.
The WIN-T strategy will also
implement DiD fundamentals such as
perimeter protection suite, enclave,
and host-based protection. These
protection mechanisms are a culmination
of Army approved information
assurance commercial off-the-shelf
hardware and software, which
provide firewall, anti-virus detection/
blocking software, intrusion detection,
software malicious mobile code
detection and access control.
This strategy will include
extending the Department of Defense
Public Key Infrastructure to the
Warfighter and Battlefield Command
applications. WIN-T will leverage the
DoD PKI to provide stronger user/
device authentication and negate the
WIN-T
need for users’ passwords. WIN-T
802.1X will be used in conjunction
with the DoD PKI to enforce network
access and auditing. Each of these
information assurance mechanisms
and devices will be managed, monitored,
and configured by the WIN-T
Network Operations and Security
Center, which will provide a single
correlated IA Common Operation
Picture and network InfoCon status.
WIN-T transmission systems
will implement National Security
Agency transmission security techniques
to protect over the air broadcast.
This strategy of limiting the
users’ direct access enterprise services
is intended to reduce or limit the
insider threat to the overall WIN-T
network. This strategy is built into the
program from the start and provides
a strong manageable and upgradable
system to protect all aspects of the
WIN-T network.
Mr. Gannon is a senior information
assurance and security engineer for Net-
Centric Technology supporting Project
Manager, Warfighter Information
Network-Tactical at Fort Monmouth, N.J.
ACRONYM QUICKSCAN
BC – Battle Command
COP – Common Operational
Picture
DiD – Defense in Depth
HAIPE – High Assurance Internet
Protocol Encryptor
IA – Information Assurance
PKI – Public Key Infrastructure
PM – Project Manager
PPS – Perimeter Protection Suite
WIN-T – Warfighter Information
Network Tactical