The FBCA is a multi-agency information-sharing infrastructure that ties together the newly cross-certified organizations and current government participants. With this announcement, six of the eight cross-certified organizations sharing information via the FBCA are utilizing Entrust technology (Energy, State, State of Illinois, Treasury, NASA and USDA-NFC).
"Enabling secure and efficient communications between government agencies is essential to meet our homeland security and e-government objectives, and the Federal Bridge is a great example of how e-government solutions can be successful," said Kevin Simzer, senior vice president of Marketing and Products at Entrust. "Entrust is proud of the role it continues to play with the FBCA and participating organizations, and we congratulate the departments of State and Energy and the state of Illinois on their newly awarded certification and the recognition they have received in view of their accomplishments."
Cross-certification with the Federal Bridge enables each agency's public key infrastructure (PKI) to recognize and trust digital certificates and signatures sent from and between other participating government organizations. It also allows all organizations to make one security agreement with the FBCA rather than making security agreements with each of the organizations they need to interact with.
