In other government news, the US and UK governments have created a new e-mail specification to enable secure government electronic collaboration.

The Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) is the result of a collaboration effort between the two government defence agencies and aerospace partners. The TSCP e-mail specification is a public-key infrastructure-based technology that verifies user identities via digital certificates that can encrypt and verify email content.

Paul Grant, deputy information sharing executive, Information Sharing Office in the office of the Defense Department CIO, stated TSCP is “transforming e-mail from one of the most extensively used but least trusted collaboration capabilities to one that can be trusted with sensitive information. This will serve as foundational for sharing ‘Controlled Unclassified Information’ without mission partners, which certainly includes our suppliers.”

The TSCP Website says that its mandate is to develop secure solutions to “affordably mitigate multi-national compliance and IT security risks inherent in large-scale collaborative programs.” Governments and their contractors will adopt the specification with differing levels of access and classification.

Via intergovworld Tags: collaboration, secure email, e collaboration, security, it security, government security