FBI Approved CJIS Access
Written on July 28, 2010 at 11:52 am, by Craig
I just returned from a week in beautiful but hot St. Louis where SecureAuth Corporation had the privilege of being one of select few vendors to be invited to participate in the FBI sponsored Information Security Officer Training Symposium. This is a truly unique event. Held every two years it is hosted and paid for by the FBI. They invite the ISO from all 50 states to come to a week of training and discussion on IT Security and Cyber Crime.
Vendors can attend by invitation only, no buy in, SecureAuth was invited based upon our project with the state of New Hampshire. Jad Flewelling, ISO for state of NH, led a panel discussion on how the state has successfully used the SecureAuth Identity Enforcement Platform to securely integrate into the Criminal Justis Information System (CJIS) Data Base. The discussion was very well received by the attendees with lots of questions for Jad on how he successfully achieved the integration and met the FBI mandate a year early.
One of the main topics of the conference was that the CJIS ISO office has revised the CJIS Information Security Policy and it is in formal staffing for approval with an implementation goal of January 2011 for all states and territories. The new policy is a significant departure from the current policy in its approach and scope. As a result all proposed multifactor authentication solutions for authentication of users into the CJIS system by the state and local agencies must be approved by the state ISO and then approved by George White of the FBI. While there is not a list of FBI certified authentication products for use in accessing the CJIS, all proposed solutions and architectures must be submitted by the state ISO to George White’s office for approval. We are very proud to say that the SecureAuth Identity Enforcement Platform was approved by Mr. White for deployment at state of NH.
There are 17,000 agencies that need to implement FBI approved access to the CJIS by 2011. SecureAuth IEP is the approved, cost effective, and secure way to meet this mandate.
The world famous St. Louis Arch
