A Multispectral Fluorescence and Reflectance Probe for In-situ Characterization of Benthic Environments (7129-050)

Not Available Mountain Wave, Inc. proposes to investigate the development of an automated security mode verification scheme that would allow independent verification that a group of networked untrusted workstations with embedded encryption is configured properly. This scheme will include the following components: Intelligent Agents on each workstation that run autonomously to achieve the goal of maintaining a baseline configuration of the network layer, the operating system, the security layer and the application layer A private and secure communications method that allows remote communications with the Intelligent Agents A Security Information Server that performs status checks and administration of the Intelligent Agents including the verification of the authenticity of the Intelligent Agents Automation methods that reduce the administration task of configuring and maintaining the proposed scheme in a production environment Phase I of this SBIR will focus on developing the Intelligent Agents and demonstrate that these agents cannot be subverted by the workstation operators. In Phase II, the whole automated security mode verification scheme will be prototyped along with a study on the associated cost and reliability issues. The automated features of this scheme are necessary to keep pace with the rapid security client-server exchanges of future shipboard systems.