¶ … new High Assurance Domain (HAD) Project has been ensuring businesses and individual users enhanced networking and communications security. The HAD project was expressly "created to foster development and deployment of new network security technologies to increase trust in online communications," ("High Assurance Domain (HAD) Project," 2012). In fulfillment of the HAD primary objectives, developers are compiling a range of technologies and protocols. Observers have noted current weaknesses in Internet protocols and general networking architecture. These weaknesses can and have been exploited. Learning from these weaknesses has led to the development of more secure protocols and systems "to aid in building trust between consumers and business (C2B), business to business (B2B) and consumer to government (C2B) communications," ("High Assurance Domain (HAD) Project," 2012). For the most part, the HAD vision offers sound ways of boosting security and operational robustness, while also complying with new standards and regulations. The most important...

Each of these components ensures compliance with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommendations for information security (Bowen, Hash & Wilson, 2006). Moreover, these components also represent long-range planning in coordination with emerging federal mandates. As of 2010, the federal government began implementing regulations related to Internet routing security (Marsan, 2010). As much as $3 billion was allocated in that year alone. Investments into Internet security have risen since then, to account for the growing need for security at the enterprise and individual level. A series of malicious attacks threatening government, business, and other sensitive domains has bolstered the need to…