Within government, industry, and the like, cross domain collaboration has always been difficult to manage and implement due to varying security clearances, desire to limit insider knowledge on a need to know basis, and the like. As such, a set of rules and procedures have been developed implementing such collaboration through physical means. Cross domain collaboration may generally be defined as the sharing of information across different companies, organizations, governmental agencies, and the like. Specifically, current methodologies utilize paper-based rules that may include security levels (e.g. classified, top secret, unclassified, etc.) with various content at differing levels and redacting associated content above a user's security level. Unfortunately, this process is labor-intensive and slow as information must be manually sorted and parsed across the various domains.
Online applications are proliferating as the Internet evolves. For instance, various collaborative applications are now widely used enabling large numbers of users from anywhere to work on a project, meeting, and the like. For example, exemplary collaboration types include Microsoft Sharepoint (available from Microsoft Corp.), LiveMeeting (available from Microsoft Corp.), wiki technologies such as wikipedia.org, gotomeeting.com (available from Citrix Online LLC), and the like. This online collaboration allows users to instantly share documents, calendars, notes, video, audio, etc. from anywhere. Advantageously, online collaboration provides productivity improvements, organizational synergy, and the like. Unfortunately, there are problems associated with existing collaboration techniques such as identity verification, security, privacy, proof of delivery, spam, viruses, and other harmful malware. Also, existing collaboration techniques use the “very public and very vulnerable” Internet as their worldwide network. The challenge is how to collaborate with users and determine the legitimacy or know the true intentions of the users in the world of the “Unvetted Public Internet”.
With respect to cross domain collaboration, there exists a need to implement the current methodologies effectively and efficiently electronically.