USE CASE FEDERAL MISSION: DISSEMINATION AND INFORMATION SHARING USING ATTRIBUTE BASED ACCESS CONTROL (ABAC) MISSION THE SPECIFICS The U.S. federal intelligence community (IC) functioned for many years in a “need-to-know” culture, where intelligence information was closely guarded within each agency. These information silos were necessary for the Cold War when information protection was paramount, but became a hindrance in post 9/11 America where the aggregation of disparate intelligence data and the crossagency collaboration of data was often needed to identity threats and complete mission objectives. To address this new challenge, IC leadership mandated that intelligence information be more readily shared across the community, while still protecting this shared data from unauthorize

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