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. 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. 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! 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. Foreword When your mission is protecting a nation's security, the term "mission-critical" takes on a whole new meaning! In this extraordinary book, Fredrick Thomas Martin presents the never-before revealed secrets of Intelink, the world's largest and most secure information system— the intranet/extranet of U.S. Intelligence Service. Perhaps the most surprising of those secrets is that this totally closed system is built onopen system standards: industry recommendations and International Standards like TCP/IP, SGML, and XML. Another secret is that Intelink is a cost-effective system, despite— or perhaps because of— its owners having an annual budget of 26 billion dollars. In one notable case, they achieved a cost savings of 90 percent in creating usable reports from raw intelligence, and reduced delivery time to one percent of what it had been. Fredrick Martin is a superb guide to the present and future of highly secure information networks. As a NSA executive, he helped enhance Intelink, and is now helping the CIA move forward to the "Agile Intelligence Enterprise" of the future. Throughout this book, he shares his expert knowledge, with a focus on applying it to the needs of business systems like yours. So, whether you want to: Apply U.S. Intelligence security techniques to your own computer systems - Profit from the present and future information management strategies of the world's largest network; or simply - Enjoy inside information, like the Walt Disney— CIA connection or the secrets of steganography you will want to read the first book ever to describe an on-going U.S. Intelligence operation— Top Secret Intranet. Charles F. Goldfarb Saratoga, CA August, 1998