Information Assurance and the Defense in Depth

This study investigates the Army's ability to provide information assurance for the NIPRNET. Information assurance includes those actions that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation.

The study examines how the military's defense in depth policy provides information assurance with a system of layered network defenses. The study also examines current practices used in the corporate world to provide information assurance.

With the cooperation of the Human Firewall Council, the study compared the performance of four organizations according to standards developed for the Council's Security Management Index. The four participants in the study included: an Army Directorate of Information Management, a government agency, a university, and a web development company. The study also compared the performance of the four participants with the aggregate results obtained by the Human Firewall Council.

The study concluded the defense in depth policy does grant the Army an advantage over other organizations for providing information assurance. However, the Army would benefit from incorporating some of the common practices of private corporations in their overall information assurance plans.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.