DDS unveil Data Security Plan

Sea Urchin has announced the first DDS Data Security Plan (DSP) which is the long awaited response to the Bolitic info-weapon threat early in the war which caused the DDS a number of problems. The DSP is intended to greatly strengthen DDS data security and integrity. It includes the following measures in a 220 million zark programme:

• Already begun is a programme to convert all DDS encrypted data transmissions including data links to 512-bit encryption by 2113.
• All DDS ships to have Info Warfare Centres (IWC) by 2114, and all front-line warships to move to IWC 2.0 by 2113 with offensive info-weapon capability.
• Development of a new class of info-weapon, Autonomous Combat Data Agents (ACDA) for defensive and offensive use. These software weapons will hunt out and destroy enemy programs and also be usable for DDS info-attacks.
• Two new data warehouses are to be built on Terra and Liberation to provide extra back-up and data mirroring capacity.
• Fractal encryption to be deployed on all Level 1 data stores.
• Major programme to train all DDS personnel in better data security methods and data handling with care procedures improved.