Policy-based management and sharing of sensitive information among government agencies

  • Authors:

  • Tryg Ager;Christopher Johnson;Jerry Kiernan

  • Affiliations:

  • IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA;IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA;IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA

  • Venue:
  • MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

  • Privacy protection in government mashups

    Information Polity - Government Information Sharing and Integration: Combining the Social and the Technical. Papers from the 9th International Conference on Digital Government Research (d.g.o.2008)

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Abstract

We propose a set of policy-based technologies to enable increased information sharing among government agencies without compromising information security or individual privacy. Our approach includes: (1) fine-grained access controls that support deny and filter semantics to satisfy complex policy conditions; (2) a sticky policy capability that allows consolidation of information from multiple sources subject to the original disclosure policies of each source; (3) a curation organization that enables agencies to apply and manipulate item-level security classifications and disclosure policies; (4) an auditing system that accounts for the curation history of each information item; and (5) a provenance auditing method that traces derivations of information over time to support evaluations of information quality. Our goal is to present a vision for solving outstanding information sharing problems in government agencies and provide direction for the development of future government information systems.