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Secure, Multi-agency Collaboration

Secure, Multi-agency Collaboration

In a world where emergency services face new challenges and growing pressures, the need for seamless, secure, multi-agency co-operation is greater than ever. Keeping information secure, instantly accessible and under control is crucial. This requires effective management of two seemingly conflicting requirements – open collaboration versus information security and control.

Today, emergency services and government agencies rely on familiar tools for inter-agency communication when responding to critical situations. However, current technologies have limits. Extranets require time-consuming authentication, email can never be totally secure and telephones, although immediate, do not provide a detailed record of conversations or decisions.

Secure Cross-Govermment Collaboartion

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Secure Collaboration from Microsoft and HP

Secure Collaboration from Microsoft and HP is a unique, cost-effective solution that:Secure Collaboration from Microsoft and HP is a unique, cost-effective solution that:

  • Brings together disparate organisations, processes, people and information into a single cohesive group to ensure maximum operational efficiency when responding to crises
  • Provides management with the ability to co-ordinate and control dynamically how much or how little information is shared

  • Uses standard, cost-effective Microsoft and HP technologies that you are already familiar with and know how to use
  • Meets the highest standards of information security as required by CESG for sensitive and confidential information

Secure Collaboration Delivers Results Quickly in a Crisis

  • Seamless and secure interoperability between different agencies and key users needed to manage an emergency scenario
  • Real-time collaboration and exchange of critical information and application-sharing without the need to compromise the security or integrity of local infrastructure
  • Central control over shared information and users with different levels of privilege and access to confidential information
  • One single source of reliable information to improve crisis management knowledge and deliver better-informed decision making

Secure Collaboration Technology Overview

Secure Collaboration uses Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) to enable secure federated access to the secure collaboration environment. ADFS enables real-time identity and permission information stored by one organisation to be shared by another to provide access to information and applications. The collaborative applications can be SharePoint Portal Server to share rich content/documents and Live Communications Server for real-time interaction such as instant messaging.

Microsoft and HP: Our Frontline Partnership

The Frontline Partnership is an alliance between Microsoft and HP that offers a unique combination of experience, capability, methods and tools, making it the most trusted alliance for secure collaboration.
The combined solution highlights how technology can promote sharing and collaboration across different agencies – while each maintains the integrity of their security controls – for benefits stretching from the back office to the front line.
Secure Collaboration can ensure secure operational information and communication sharing between Emergency Services, Defence, Intelligence, Police, Justice, Central Government, and Local Government for emergency, civil contingency and terrorist incidents.
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