Authorized users gain access to data through authentication and using secure applications across enterprise systems. The MPKI services will also help prevent unauthorized users from gaining access tothe JNET system through the use of data encryption and PKI-based digitalsignatures and certificates.
"JNET has adopted business practices that promote cost effectiveness, information sharing and timely and appropriate access to critical information. Our selection of VeriSign's MPKI represents that methodology in action," said Linda Rosenberg, Justice Network Director, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
JNET began in 1997 as a way of enhancing public safety through the integration of justice information in Pennsylvania. Currently, 11,000 users in 38 participating counties, 51 federal and state agencies and 200 municipal police departments are members of JNET. Many more have plans to deploy JNET incoming months.
The system operates on open Internet technologies and standards, enabling participating agencies to share information from their diverse hardware and software platforms via a common Web-browser interface. JNET reduces redundancy, errors and money spent by facilitating one-time entry of offender information and access to justice data, such as drivers' license photos, mug-shot photos and RAP sheet information. In addition, JNET features a notification function or "watch-out" list capability -- labeled a priority application from the National Office of Homeland Security - that allows for immediate notification via pager or email when arrests or other events occur.
