(August 16, 2022)
The Director of National Intelligence publishes what is described as an annual report, “Security Clearance Determinations,” although the most recent one I could find was from 2017.
In it, more than 2.8 million people are described as having security clearance as of October 2017 – more than 1.6 million have access to either Confidential or Secret information and nearly 1.2 million are described as having access to Top Secret information.
(June 11, 2025)
Of 39 allegedly fraudulent investigations Nousheen Qureshi carried out over the course of more than a year for the Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency, at least a half-dozen included fabricated “interviews” with people who later said they had never even heard from her at all, according to a plea agreement obtained first by The Independent.
The administration is planning to limit classified information it shares on CAPNET, the classified information sharing system used by both the House and Senate, the sources said.
It was not immediately clear how much information the administration plans to limit moving forward.
Who is using TESTA?
To see which EU countries are already using our TESTA solution, click on a country in the map below. This is not an exhaustive list of public administrations but already demonstrates the value of TESTA in each country. You will get a list of currently identified national/local public authorities connected via their in-country national governmental network to reach TESTA – associated with the applications being used by these public administrations through TESTA;
The other groups using TESTA consist of
– The EU Institutions : European Parliament / European Council / Council of the European Union / European Commission / Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) / European Central Bank (ECB) / European Court of Auditors (ECA) / European External Action Service (EEAS) / European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) / European Committee of the Regions (CoR) / European Investment Bank (EIB) / Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) / Publications Office.
– the EU Agencies.
The Trans European Services for Telematics between Administrations (TESTA) system is the private IP-based network of the European Union. TESTA is a telecommunications interconnection platform for secure information exchange between the European and member states administrations. It is currently handled within the ISA² European programme.
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1st generation (TESTA): 1996–2000
(2. Januar 2022)
Die Domain „testa-de.net“ ist laut WHOIS-Anfrage von Ihrer Behörde registriert. Die NRW-Justiz scheint diese Domain irgendwie zu verwenden (…), aber die Links sind nicht aufrufbar.
Bitte teilen Sie mir daher mit:
1) Ist diese Domain von Ihrer Behörde registriert?
2) Wofür wird die Domain (einschließlich aller Subdomains) von Ihnen verwendet?
3) Können andere Behörden oder Körperschaften diese Domain (einschließlich aller Subdomains) mitverwenden? Wenn ja, welche Behörden oder Körperschaften verwenden diese Domain (einschließlich aller Subdomains) mit?
Ergebnis der Anfrage
Zu Frage 1:
Ja. Die Domain testa-de.net ist von der BDBOS registriert.
Zu Frage 2:
Die BDBOS betreibt für den Bund gemäß Art 91c Absatz 4GG ein Verbindungnetz zur Verbindung der informationstechnischen Netze des Bundes und der Länder. Dieses Netz verfügt über besondere Verschlüsselungstechniken und kann aus dem Internet nicht erreicht werden.
Im Verbindungsnetz erfolgt die Adressierung von Diensten, Verfahren und Anwendungen grundsätzlich narnensbasiert über das im Verbindungsnetz bereitgestellte Domain Name System (DNS).
The Trans European Services for Telematics between Administrations (TESTA) system is the private IP-based network of the European Union. TESTA is a telecommunications interconnection platform for secure information exchange between the European and member states administrations. It is currently handled within the ISA² European programme.
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1st generation (TESTA): 1996–2000
(October 20, 2014)
One day, as I surfed the web on my laptop and lamented how long it takes a YouTube video to load, I found myself wondering if employees of the US government — DoD researchers, DoE scientists, CIA spies — are also beholden to the same congestion and shoddy peering that affects everyone else on the internet. Surely, as hundreds of scientists at Fermi Lab near Chicago wait for petabytes of raw data to arrive from the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, they don‘t suffer interminable connection drops and inexplicable lag. And, as it turns out, they don‘t: the US government and its national laboratories all have exclusive access to ESnet — a shadow internet that can sustain 100-gigabits-per-second transfers between any of the major Department of Energy labs. And today, the DoE announced that the 100-gigabit ESnet will be extended across the Atlantic to our Old World comrades, who occasionally manage to dazzle us with their scientific endeavors.
(Feb 5 2004)
The Government Secure Intranet (GSi) project means that central and local Government employees will have restricted access to email, internet, remote working and a regularly updated central directory.
Government Secure Intranet (GSi) was a United Kingdom government wide area network, whose main purpose was to enable connected organisations to communicate electronically and securely at low protective marking levels. It was known for the ‚.gsi.gov.uk‘ family of domains for government email. Migration away from these domains began in 2019[1] and will be completed in 2023.