http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0528/web-nmci-05-30-01.asp BY Bill Murray May 30, 2001 The Navy is considering using one standard portal product that will help control individuals access to applications the Navy will place on its $6.9 billion intranet. Users logging on to the Navy Marines Corps Intranet, which will tie together on one network the Navys shore-based organizations, would obtain access to the intranet using a common access card. The Web-based portal product would replace the Navys costly effort to develop a public-key infrastructure for all applications accessible over NMCI. The portal product would require users logging onto the network to rely on a common access card, which is inserted into a PC Card reader, to access applications. Under this scenario, the portal itself would be PKI-enabled, but the portal would work as a handshake with the access card, verifying the card and reading what applications the user has permission to access. "I never have to PKI-enable the application" using the portal, said Ron Turner, deputy CIO at the Navy for infrastructure, systems and technology. "Thats something were looking at investing in heavily." Without a Web-based portal product, the Navy would have had to develop PKI for every application, a costly and time-consuming effort. The Defense Department has required all services to PKI-enable all applications by 2003, many of which are on legacy systems. Navy officials believe the portal and access card will meet the DOD guidelines. Turner said that, from a CIO perspective, the Navy would like to have one portal product, but he is not sure if the technology is available yet. The Navy hopes the first Web-based portal a so-called splash screen that would push out software upgrades to onshore bases will be available in June, said Capt. Chris Christopher, Navy deputy program executive officer for IT. The splash screen will be a native Extensible Markup Language portal built from the ground up. ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email isn-unsubscribeat_private
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