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High Assurance Platform ProgramThe High Assurance Platform (HAP) Program is a multi-year NSA program with the vision to define a framework for the development of the "next generation" of secure computing platforms. NSA conducts this effort in collaboration with industry, academia, and other government organizations. The secure computing platforms defined by this program will couple emerging commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) security technologies with a variety of assurance techniques. The results will enable commercial vendors to develop assurable secure, manageable, and usable computing platform component products to a common vetted design and will enable integrators to deliver COTS-based assurable commercial solutions to operational users.
What Drives Our Vision?Recent security-relevant advances in commercial hardware technologies motivated the HAP Program vision. These advances offer the possibility that improvements in assurance and usability will be more affordable than in the past. For example, hardware-based security mechanisms can create a means to substantiate the trust users place in the hardware, software and firmware of the underlying computing platform. Together with open standard protocols, these mechanisms can enable implementation of endpoint integrity to address the sophisticated, ubiquitous platform-level threats that exist in today's computing environments. Other relevant hardware advances include separation/isolation technologies, secure enterprise management/provisioning of platforms, and support for secure collaboration. HAP Program ObjectivesAs the program manager for this effort, NSA will define, scope, and manage the execution of the various activities involved in realization of the HAP Program vision. The specific objectives are to:
DefinitionsAlthough security is paramount for NSA, we must not overly constrain usability and manageability when engineering security into the platform. The HAP Program regards a secure, manageable, and usable platform in the following terms:
Concurrent EffortsThe HAP Program also manages complementary, concurrent efforts through which the program vision and objectives are to be achieved.
Incremental Demonstration and DeliveryThe HAP Program engages operational organizations to define and develop mission-oriented solutions that serve organizational needs while demonstrating platform concepts. These demonstrations are referred to as HAP Program Releases. |
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Date Posted: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Modified: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Reviewed: Jan 15, 2009 |