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Maintaining the Global Communications
Infrastructure
- Satellites. As technology
advances, the satellite infrastructure has become a key component
for data, voice, and video communications and services; consequently,
its susceptibility to threats, intentional or inadvertent, could jeopardize
the reliability of these services. As a result, the NSTAC reviewed
and assessed policies, practices, and procedures for the application
of infrastructure protection measures to commercial satellite communications
networks used for NS/EP communications. Further, the NSTAC recently
initiated a study of the commercial communications infrastructure’s
dependence on the satellite-based global positioning system (GPS)
and the implications of a loss of GPS to that infrastructure.
- Identity Management. The
NSTAC provided an analysis of NS/EP challenges associated with the
migration from circuit-switched networks to packet-switched next generation
networks (NGN). The committee developed key recommendations essential
to assuring NS/EP communications in this evolving network environment,
which included recommending that the Federal Government build an effective
identity management framework for the NGN. The NSTAC has extended
its examination of identity management issues and plans to address
the subject as it relates to NS/EP at the 2008 Research and Development
Exchange Workshop.
- International Incident Management.
The policies and organizational mechanisms that address operational
security risks and incident management in the global network community
are essential components to ensuring network access and remediation
during system disruptions. These policy and operational issue areas
are particularly critical in light of expanding Government-initiated
collaboration with key allies and global trading partners and the
international nature of the network, provider, and threat environment
surrounding cyber incidents. The NSTAC recently examined the existing
international policy environment and incident response capabilities
and made recommendations to the President intending to promote U.S.
NS/EP interests in emerging international incident management efforts.
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