B. Establishing Trust Between Organizations
Organizations working in ad-hoc environments inherently do not want to trust each other. They know their relationship is only temporary and that they all come into the environment
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with a different mission, intent and background. This however does not take away their need to interact and share information. By allowing authorities within the organization to define their own security sharing policies the process of FVI-NTS can begin to automatically take place ensuring that an organization does not have to release any more or any less than it wants to until the relationship and roles become more clearly established. FVI-NTS helps along this process by ensuring the
security and confidentiality of information even once it has
traveled to an external organization. Not only is trust an issue between two organizations who have declared a need to share between each other, it is also an issue between a sharing organization and the organization that is handling the
transmission of its information. This often occurs in Government-NGO relationships when a private corporation or organization such as Red Crescent or Doctors Without Borders have a need to work side by side with local military commanders who have established the FVI-NTS network for use by the varying organizations. Red Crescent may have
concerns about the militaries use of their data and the strength of the encryption being used. However, due to the Open Source
nature and encryption methods used by NTS, any organization can validate the processes being used. Once trust in the system has been established then organizations can begin to trust one another and work more efficiently to accomplish the mission