Bridging the Air Gap is a Ministry of Defence (MoD) sponsored research into the assurance of Cross Domain Solutions(CDS); to discover and examine the possible impact and exposure implications of establishing, operating and managing highly classified systems that are operationally required to multilaterally, multilevel interface with lower classified domains, coalition networks and possibly the Internet.

Information Assurance (IA) is the key to trusting, maintaining and developing Defence Cyber Operations and Information Exploitation capabilities. MoD's Network Enabled Capability (NEC) has intrinsic and often complex interdependencies, information interactions and knowledge transactions which can be chaotic, unsafe, insecure and untrusted. To comprehend, structure, make safe, secure and risk manage the NEC's enterprise architecture, its integrity and dependability requires educated IA practitioners and an assured, cultured aware user community.

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