Contemporary IT Security for Military Online Collaboration Platforms

Persistent armed conflicts with volatile intensities around Europe and resultant incidents directly on the old continent prompt the European governments and their general staffs to hold militiamen as reserve forces ready for emergency cases. These semi-professional soldiers need to regularly exercise their military skills. It is common practice that the leaderships of militia organizations connect via the Internet to military online collaboration platforms to prepare their field exercises there. Despite the involvement of the Internet in the transmission of sensitive military data, the IT security objectives authenticity, integrity, nonrepudiation, privacy, and resilience must be achieved at all costs. In the absence of an apposite IT security concept for such platforms in the literature, this publication amalgamates topical techniques to propose an access model that fulfills all five IT security targets. Beside the development stages threat model, security policy, and security mechanism, the disquisition proves the feasibility of the approach by manifesting airtight performance and security analyses.