Coordinated Emergency Response

Although our National Response Framework (NRF) has not gotten much attention lately, I wanted to publish some work done by myself and Alex Karman.  We implemented a POC and wrote a white paper to demonstrate infrastructure to support NRF.  The white paper is called Coordinated Emergency Response and it accessible here:

https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1lwpolvgQOccg3Mm4EKckSal_qHVA8jogyWIJcRpPS0I&hl=en&authkey=CKHy5u8D#

We feel this technology and approach would be useful to implement across the Local, State, and Federal agencies in support of emergency response.

MITA TAC 2010 - Security as a Service (MMIS Conference)

With respect to the MITA TAC, the theme and effort we focused on for 2010 was centered on “Security as a Service” (SaaS).  SaaS has the benefit of:

1. Centralizing control of security
2. Re-using critical security functionality throughout an organization
3. Providing consistency with respect to how security is implemented
4. Leveraging standards to implement security for interoperability, plugability and extensibility 

The upshot is that the MITA TAC achieved the following:

1. Clarified what the key services are: authentication, authorization, and auditing
2. Leveraged industry standards for security to build out and deploy examples of these services
3. Exposed these web services on the internet – focusing on the 2010 MMIS Conference
4. Demoed these services at the MITA TAC interoperability booth