Cisco,
EMC and Microsoft have formed an alliance to supply
multi-supplier architectures to help secure and share government
data.
The firms' Secure
Information Sharing Architecture
(SISA) initiative combines applications, information
infrastructure and networking technologies to help protect
organisations' existing IT investments.
They said the initiative is needed as governments now wanted to
share and distribute more information from disparate IT
infrastructures across their organisations, while at the same time
strengthen their networks and data centres in the face of
widening hacking and terrorist threats.
The three main players that form the SISA project are also
working with other suppliers to deliver niche elements of data
distribution and security required by governments.