The Secure SDI extension will be released this month as part of the
CarbonArc PRO 1.6 update.  The extension provides role-based access control
and feature-level security for SDI in coordination with distributed security
frameworks from CubeWerx, a leading provider of spatial data warehousing and
OGC-compliant Web services software products.

"The combination of CarbonArc PRO and Secure SDI functionality answers one
of the primary challenges in deploying real-world systems based on OGC
standards - making sure critical geospatial information goes to the people
who are supposed to have it," said Jeff Harrison, President and CEO of The
Carbon Project.

Secure SDI provides unprecedented functionality including role-based access
control, security by geographic area, security by OGC operations, and
security down to specific geospatial features. The technology is an
important advancement for the geospatial community and can support coalition
operations, cross-border SDI and regulatory interoperability between
organizations.

"Secure SDI is vital because OGC standards are strongly influencing
development of the national and international SDIs, especially data access
and collaborative production operations.  But these efforts have reached the
point where broad acceptance is dependent on securing online data resources
including access control to OGC data services. These requirements will
continue to increase as simple data access transitions into collaborative
data management based on standards like the Web Feature Server-Transactional
(WFS-T) from OGC," says Harrison.

CarbonArc PRO has been selected by multiple government customers and has
been featured in many recent interoperability demonstrations. 

CarbonArc PRO was developed with CarbonTools PRO, an extension to the
Microsoft .NET Framework allowing software developers to add advanced
geospatial interoperability to any Microsoft Windows application.

CarbonArc PRO 1.6 with Secure SDI will be available this month. For more
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