TSCP Outreach Director to Present at ComDef West 08

March 31, 2008

SAN DIEGO , March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- At the ComDef West 2008 Conference, Keith Ward , outreach director of the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP), will discuss how government organizations and the aerospace and defense (A&D) industrial base can securely share information in global mission-critical environments.

The session will outline the public-private framework for secure collaboration, detailing necessary components including: trust verification, audits, physical access, logical access and federated identity management. Attendees will learn how secure information sharing enables new levels of e- business and solves everyday liability, trust, risk, cost and compliance challenges.

WHO: Keith Ward, TSCP outreach director and director of identity management at Northrop Grumman WHAT: "Common Framework for Federated Collaboration" WHEN: Monday, March 31, 2008 11:15 PDT WHERE: ComDef West 2008 Conference, Kona Kai Resort, San Diego, CA

The TSCP is a unique industry partnership, bringing government agencies, A&D companies and technology providers together to define and test robust specifications that allow organizations to collaborate globally and solved the most critical supply chain security challenges.

For more information on the ComDef West 2008 Conference, please visit: http://www.dem-ltd.com/pdf/events/defence-it-082008.pdf

About TSCP

TSCP is the only government-industry partnership specifically focused on designing solutions to address the most critical issues facing the A&D industry: mitigating the compliance, complexity, cost and IT security risks inherent in large-scale, multi-national collaborative programs. The TSCP was founded in 2002, and has delivered several specifications and guidance documents on securing A&D supply chain data. The group today focuses on identity federation policies and governance. The TSCP is open to government organizations, prime contractors, integrators, suppliers and member trade groups. For more information, please visit www.tscp.org.

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