Data integrity has to be there to ensure that the information gets to an authorized user.
The system is being implemented by FishNet Consulting, Inc., a Security Dynamics reseller and integrator with headquarters in Kansas City. Today, about 6,500 law enforcement officials throughout Kansas have access to the system, and that number is expected to grow to 12,000 by the year 2000. They need to know who is at the other end of the line before granting access to information. As with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, to be secure, user authentication through tokens, smart cards or another form should be a core security component of any VPN or PKI deployment. As a result, any officer wanting to retrieve information from the KBI system, whether they are using the frame relay network or Internet-based VPN, must use a SecurID token to gain access to the sensitive information stored in the warehouse.