7th Annual IEEE Information Assurance Workshop

 21-23 June 2006

 "The West Point Workshop"

 United States Military Academy, West Point, New York
Chair:  LTC Ronald Dodge, Ronald.Dodge@usma.edu

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Compound Identity Measure: A New Concept for Information Assurance

Rahim Choudhary

The 7th IEEE Information Assurance Workshop (IAWorkshop 2006)
West Point, New York, USA, June 21-23, 2006

Abstract

In this paper we have presented a new concept: the compound identity measure. In essence, the compound identity combines the user identity with the contextual information under which the user acts. The measure of the compound identity is a weighted combination of the user related entities and the context related entities. This numeric measure is a variable depending upon what entities are included and with what relative weightings. This variability can be a function of the real-time SA/COP data, thus allowing it to dynamically respond to the operational events, in the near real-time.

We have defined the concept, described the detailed methods to evaluate the concept into a numeric measure, pointed out the enabling technologies, and illustrated the scheme with an example. We have also pointed out how to use the compound identity measure in a policy-based decision engine, and various areas of its application. The concept is currently being prototyped in our laboratory to support VoIP capabilities for DISA.

  
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The IEEE Information Assurance Workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society, supported by the National Security Agency, and hosted by the Information Technology Operations Center, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.