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DISA seeks military-wide identity management
The Defense Department has a big ask for the security community.
To help manage identity across the broad defense enterprise, the Defense Information Systems Agency is looking for vendors to establish a federated identity service for DISA, its mission partners and other users. The solution should mitigate current inefficiencies, facilitate strong authentication with cloud services, provide authorization with role-base access and enable audits of users and resources.
In a call for white papers, DISA said it wants an enterprisewide identity, credential and access management (ICAM) capability that will allow the agency to "centrally monitor, manage, secure, and audit identity, access, and authorization seamlessly across DoD Components and their dynamic and disjointed computing environments."
Although DOD component agencies and commands are establishing their own ICAM programs, DOD lacks the ability to identify who or what is accessing the diverse enterprise network at any given time -- especially when it comes to mission partners, mobile and cloud platforms and artificial intelligence and other innovative technologies.
Besides providing DOD with the ability to audit user activity across diverse organizational boundaries, DISA’s enterprise ICAM effort also aims to modernize the agency’s identity capabilities, streamline processes and expand functionality so it can increase productivity, improve secure information sharing, enhance operability and better identify and mitigate threats across the DOD enterprise.
DISA expects the enhancements to include centralized authentication/access management services, automated account provisioning and master user records -- along with synchronization and services that integrate capabilities across the local and enterprise networks.
DISA is currently asking for white papers and will select the two or three most promising approaches and have those candidates develop prototypes. The best solution will be awarded an Other Transaction Authority agreement to develop the ICAM prototype for a limited production environment.
Responses are due Nov. 5.
This article first appeared on GCN, a partner site of Defense Systems.
About the Author
Susan Miller is executive editor at GCN.
Over a career spent in tech media, Miller has worked in editorial, print production and online, starting on the copy desk at IDG’s ComputerWorld, moving to print production for Federal Computer Week and later helping launch websites and email newsletter delivery for FCW. After a turn at Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology, where she worked to promote technology-based economic development, she rejoined what was to become 1105 Media in 2004, eventually managing content and production for all the company's government-focused websites. Miller shifted back to editorial in 2012, when she began working with GCN.
Miller has a BA and MA from West Chester University and did Ph.D. work in English at the University of Delaware.
Connect with Susan at smiller@gcn.com or @sjaymiller.
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