Information Assurance

Information Assurance (IA) is the discipline of protecting government information resources from malicious and unintended uses — misuse, exploitation — while ensuring their availability, integrity, and operational capabilities for intended users.

Synteras Information Assurance Activities:

• Asset analysis — identification, classification, and protection objectives
• Vulnerability and threat assessments — identification and prioritization in asset impact terms
• Battle damage assessments — operational impact assessment, lessons learned analysis, and technique refinement

Synteras Information Assurance Capabilities:

• Economical COTS IT infrastruture that leverages current investments, skill sets, and training regimens routinely in use today across the federal landscape
• Multiple layers of automated security
• Data encryption at rest and in-transit
• Compartmented access based on pre-determined permissions
• Enterprise rights management
• Acquisition, certification, and accreditation of solutions
• Enterprise rights management
• Automated security tools designed to detect insider threats and
• Emergency network lockdown capability