Top Secret Intranet: How U.S. Intelligence Built Intelink - the World's Largest, Most Secure Network - Softcover

Martin, Fredrick Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130808989 ISBN 13: 9780130808981

Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr, 1998

Synopsis

Describes the US intelligence community's development and implementation of Intelink, providing both a tantalizing picture of technological possibilities and ideas for using such developments in business applications. The CD-ROM includes a demo of the Intelink interface, as well as demo software and tools. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author

FREDRICK THOMAS MARTIN began his career with the U.S. Intelligence Community in 1960 on the front lines as a linguist and intelligence analyst in the Middle East. He recently retired from the National Security Agency as a computer scientist and Deputy Director of their Information Services Group. He is currently a consultant to the Central Intelligence Agency working on implementing the future plans he discusses in this book.

From the Back Cover

TOP SECRET INTRANET

How U.S. Intelligence Built INTELINK - The World's Largest, Most Secure Network

The never-before-published story of Intelink

An inside look at the U.S. Intelligence Community's worldwide, super-secure intranet

The U.S. Intelligence Community has built one awesome intranet. "Intelink" integrates and disseminates virtually every piece of information that goes into intelligence gathering, reporting, and analysis at the CIA, NSA, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, FBI, and eight other top secret agencies to their "customers" - from the White House to the Warfighter. It's just about as secure as intranets can be. Now, for the first time, here's the inside story of how they did all that. Sure, there are a few things they can't tell you, but what they can tell you is utterly fascinating - especially if you've got your own intranet to build or manage.

* Building a maximum-security extranet to connect multiple independent organizations
* Implementation: what went smoothly - and what didn't
* Case studies: extending Intelink to new intelligence agencies and customers
* Security: encryption and access control issues
* U.S. Government network security efforts
* Cooperation with foreign governments
* Relevance to business covered in every chapter
* Future intranet tools

Someday your intranet will handle terabytes of data; Intelink is doing it right now. Discover how they've made their intranet secure, integrating HTML, SGML, XML, metadata, pull and push technologies, and collaboration tools to get exactly the right data to the right people at the right time. Then preview the U.S. Intelligence Community's revolutionary strategic plans for managing this information - and discover how you can use the same ideas to achieve competitive advantage. There's even a CD-ROM containing a demo of the actual Intelink interface, plus demo software, tools, metadata standards, training, and other information straight from Intelink. So put on your trenchcoat and dark glasses: you're going inside!

Reviews

This is a great book for spooks, spys, and other paranoids who have just finished Gralla's title (above) and work for a Fortune 500 company. It's not an easy read, but the text offers a fascinating look at the process of intranet development and the futuristic idea of "virtual intelligence." The CD-ROM includes sample Intelink software demos. Recommended for large central libraries.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130808989
• ISBN 13: 9780130808981
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380