_____________________________________________________________ Solution Case Study Information Protection & Compliance

Complying With & Enforcing Federal Information Security Regulations       The U.S. Army recruiting process has become critical in maintaining the preparedness of its more than 499,000 active duty soldiers and 700,000 National Guard and reservists worldwide. United States Army Accessions Command (USAAC), located at Fort Knox, Kentucky, provides the data warehouse applications to support more than 7,300 Army recruiters in over 1,600 recruiting offices across the U.S. and the world. The US Army turned to Teleran to ensure that the personal information maintained in the recruiting data warehouse is protected as required by Federal data privacy regulations.   US Army Challenge The USAAC must comply with Federal regulations for securing the privacy of personal data collected during the recruitment process. The Army needed to implement both an auditing capability that recorded who was accessing what records, when and with what application. More importantly, they needed to enforce data protection policies that prevented both inadvertent or intentional access to personal records.   Because multiple applications are used to access the data warehouse, auditing and implementing controls at the application layer would have been costly and inconsistent. They also determined that database and system level monitoring tools did not offer comprehensive usage tracking or effective data access controls. With thousands of users and an increasingly large data warehouse they needed a system that was fast and easy to implement, was not disruptive to their user community and required minimal maintenance.   Teleran Solution The US Army, working with Northrop Grumman’s Information Technology division, a Teleran partner and reseller of Teleran products, selected Teleran's product suite to deliver both comprehensive usage auditing as well as privacy policy enforcement.   iSight provides:  Continuous usage monitoring that audits all recruiters’ interaction with the USAAC data warehouse.  Auditing reports and analyses confirm that data privacy policies are being met as well as identify and alert staff to any suspicious or inappropriate activity. iGuard delivers: Automated policy-based access controls that enforce data privacy policies across applications and databases with minimal administrative effort.  A security capability outside of normal database security settings, enabling the US Army to create customized security policies applied by users, user groups, applications and database objects. Teleran's solution has enabled USAAC to protect sensitive personal data, comply with Federal privacy regulations without any disruption to their users across the world.     Back to top   *All company names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.