Criminal Justice Information Gateway
The Novell Criminal Justice Information Gateway enables government agencies to effectively secure and manage the increasingly complex data requirements of the criminal justice community. The wide range of disparate systems containing "need to know" information, and the requirement to access information remotely is creating new challenges for government organizations. Leveraging access and identity management solutions from Novell, governments can quickly provide secure and convenient access to criminal justice information across the organization and across agency boundaries.
Criminal Justice Information Gateway from Novell leverages both identity management technologies and integration tools to effectively connect disparate applications and back-end systems, and deliver information to law enforcement personnel at the right time and right place. This solution ensures fast, secure, convenient access to key criminal justice community applications. By supporting open standards, this solution is also very flexible, making it easy to embrace and integrate existing hardware and software investments. Key features and benefits of the Novell solution include:
- Secure information sharing across agency and jurisdictional boundaries
- Web enabling of legacy platforms and integratation of disparate information sources using open standards
- Strong authentication methods, such as, tokens, smart cards, PKI and biometrics to protect data
- Single sign-on access to criminal justice community applications
- Cross-platform support for mainframe, fat/thin client and Web applications
- Centralized management of passwords and user IDs
- Ability to distribute and delegate user administration to trusted external jurisdictions
- Support for multiple devices, including wireless devices, PCs, laptops and PDAs
- A personalized Web-based view of criminal justice applications
- Secure, remote access without the need to use a VPN