Network Associates and Infodata Systems Selected by the Advanced Research and Development Agency to Provide Protection Against Insider Threats Network Associates and Infodata to Research and Build Prototype Document-centric Access Control Architecture to Deliver Highest Levels of Access and Usage Assurance SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Network Associates, Inc. , the leading provider of intrusion prevention solutions, today announced that the Advanced Research and Development Agency (ARDA) has selected Network Associates Laboratories and Infodata Systems Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: INFD) , a leader in IT services for content management, to research and build a prototype document control system to provide high-assurance access controls to sensitive content that supports the Intelligence Community (IC). This effort is being supported by the Advanced Countermeasures for Insider Threat (ACIT) program within ARDA. Network Associates Laboratories and Infodata will work together to develop next generation access control models for precise, flexible and accurate policy expression in a document-centric environment. The Companies will jointly implement and enforce the models by developing an architecture for high assurance and trusted enforcement on end-user computer systems (including COTS systems) and software technologies for rapidly injecting the approach into real-world products that can be deployed within the IC. "Today's technologies are limited with respect to the flexibility and expressive power of the access and usage policies they can support and the degree of assurance that software-based enforcement mechanisms can provide," said Dr. Roshan Thomas, senior research scientist and principle investigator for Network Associates Laboratories. "Network Associates Laboratories and Infodata have been given a unique opportunity to raise the bar on innovative technology and demonstrate the latest advances in addressing content security within document-centric environments." Infodata solutions are built on a platform that consists of powerful Content Review, Content Assembly and Publishing, and Content Security services that operate from within Electronic Content Management (ECM) systems. The platform allows agencies to manipulate content in accordance with critical business processes while complying with demanding security regulations. This capability is critical for government agencies that cannot risk separating their content libraries from their critical mission activities. For the project, Infodata will employ its Content Security technology, Signet(TM), to create a highly secure, persistent protection environment for multiple types of content. From the environment, agencies can make distributions securely, both internally and externally to the ECM system, with access falling within the restrictions of each recipient's access control permission set. "With more than 35 years of content management domain expertise primarily directed to the IC, and a robust Content Security solution, we are ideally poised to assist Network Associates in delivering state-of-the-art research and a demonstrable environment that improves the secure dissemination of critical content," said Bruce Morton, vice president and general manager of Intel for Infodata. By leveraging the resources of Infodata from the inception of the project, Network Associates Laboratories will ensure that its approach is driven by and grounded in real-world document handling scenarios. Network Associates Laboratories will also work with Infodata to develop a high-assurance prototype that integrates the Laboratories research with Infodata's suite of document management products in order to open up strong technology transfer and commercialization paths for the project's results. Network Associates Laboratories Network Associates Laboratories, the technology research division of Network Associates, Inc., is one of the industry's leading security research organizations with 70 dedicated professionals in four facilities throughout the United States. The Labs is a multi-discipline research organization with world-renowned expertise in the areas of information assurance and intrusion protection. For more information, the Labs can be reached in the United States at 301-527-9500 or on the Internet at http://www.networkassociates.com/labs. About Infodata Systems Inc. Infodata Systems Inc. provides expert and robust content management services perfectly tailored to customer needs. Our experts quickly unlock the features of market-leading technology to deliver high-value content environments to our clients. We design and implement content management environments with solutions ideally matched to customer missions, ensuring regulatory compliance, operational integrity and continuity across the enterprise. Based just outside Washington, D.C., in Herndon, VA, Infodata has 35 years of proven ability in providing comprehensive content management services to the Government and Intelligence communities. For more information, Infodata can be reached at 703-773-4849 or on the Internet at http://www.infodata.com/. About Network Associates With headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., Network Associates, Inc. creates best-of-breed computer security solutions that prevent intrusions on networks and protect computer systems from the next generation of blended attacks and threats. Offering two families of products, McAfee System Protection Solutions, securing desktops and servers, and McAfee Network Protection Solutions, ensuring the protection and performance of the corporate network, Network Associates offers computer security to large enterprises, governments, small and medium sized businesses, and consumers. These two product portfolios incorporate Network Associates leading McAfee, Sniffer and Magic product lines. For more information, Network Associates can be reached at 972-963-8000 or on the Internet at http://www.networkassociates.com/. 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