The President has declared that NIEM will be the approved XML framework that drives semantic interoperability between information sharing branches of government. Beyond its technical merits, NIEM delivers Federal programs the agility to share information in emergency situations, improves data flow during day-to-day operations, and delivers a syntax for cloud based collaborations.
However, three major barriers hold back widespread implementation:
1. retrofitting legacy systems or SOA platforms to send, receive, or enforce NIEM messages at high speed is difficult and costly
2. Administrative knowledge and easy-to-use tooling to apply information assurance policy to a complex standard
3. A central platform to expose, secure, and audit information sharing with external agency domains.
A Service Gateway offers a true breakthrough for rapid NIEM enablement that can be delivered in as little as 60 days. A Service Gateway is unique in that it acts as a network edge proxy that offloads NIEM processing from existing infrastructure using a high assurance, tamper-resistant appliance. Additionaly, a Service Gateway empowers security architects with full control to quickly layer encryption, threat protection, policy enforcement, schema validation, and transformation functions to NIEM or legacy messages.