Name: MindLink
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Author: MindLink

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MindLink is an ultra-secure chat messaging platform designed specifically for international and inter-agency mission operations in defense and intelligence. According to the vendor, this solution targets defense and intelligence organizations, government agencies, military organizations, security and intelligence organizations, as well as law enforcement agencies. MindLink claims to enable real-time collaboration and secure sharing of highly classified information, ensuring effective command and control in critical mission scenarios.

## Key Features

**Secure Federation**: MindLink provides structured persistent chat rooms securely federated with coalition mission partners and forward-deployed assets, facilitating real-time, classified collaboration across distributed mission components.

**Secure Chat Rooms**: MindLink offers structured persistent chat rooms that are securely federated with coalition mission partners and forward-deployed assets, allowing for the real-time sharing of highly classified but mission-critical information, ensuring effective command and control.

**Federated Attribute-Based Access Control**: MindLink claims to implement a sophisticated attribute-based access control (ABAC) system that is extended between coalition mission partners, ensuring secure and controlled access to chat rooms for authorized users with necessary security clearances.

**Data Classification**: MindLink incorporates military-grade labeling and access control techniques to chat rooms and messages. According to the vendor, it utilizes advanced national classification systems like CAPCO and GSCP to dynamically classify chat rooms and messages, facilitating secure and frictionless sharing of classified data in real time, following government-mandated information management practices.

**Communities of Interest**: MindLink's security architecture follows the "Communities of Interest" paradigm advocated by the Intelligence Community. It segregates chat rooms, users, and content into secure compartments, enforcing strong access-control boundaries to ensure the sharing of highly sensitive information only with authorized individuals who have a "need to know."

**Enterprise End-to-End Encryption**: MindLink claims to employ end-to-end encryption to protect mission-critical information. It leverages specialized information security paradigms adopted by the Intelligence Community, mitigating insider threats and ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of the system.

**Mission-Focused UX**: MindLink is specifically designed to support critical use cases and ways of working across the modern mission theater. It natively supports mission scenarios such as real-time coordination, watch-based teamwork, and incident management, providing an optimized user experience for efficient and informed decision-making.

**Low Network and Resource Overhead**: MindLink's lightweight web client is designed to operate in areas with poor connectivity or limited network coverage. According to the vendor, it ensures reliable operation in isolated, remote, and bandwidth-constrained mission deployments, enabling consistent, real-time collaboration across all mission components, including remote and forward-deployed assets.

**Pluggable Authentication**: MindLink supports third-party authentication providers for seamless integration with existing authentication infrastructure. According to the vendor, it delegates user authentication to existing military-grade IDAM and Key Card systems, ensuring the necessary authentication and authorization protocols are in place.

**API Integrations for Mission Systems**: MindLink provides an API for seamless integration with other mission systems, enabling the exchange of information between MindLink and other mission systems to improve operational efficiency.

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Gantt Charts

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Scheduling

Scheduling capabilities allow users to set schedules on tasks, and create timelines and milestones.

Workflow Automation

Workflow automation is the ability to route work requests along an approval process automatically.

Mobile Access

Mobile access is the ability to access the software from a smartphone or tablet.

File tracking

Tracks the location of a file, as well as who has opened or changed it and when.

Tagging

Users can organize related materials such as files, discussions, and tasks by attaching metadata tags.

Search

Users can search for related materials across files, discussions threads, schedules, etc. using project keywords or tags.

Integrates with other Project Management Tools

Collaboration tool integrates with other project management software

Visual planning tools

Includes visual tools such as pinboards, mind-maps, or charts for collaborative brainstorming and/or workflow planning.

Communication

Features that allow team members to communicate about collaborative projects and keep each other informed of their opinions and progress.

Chat

Instant messaging tool allows users to communicate with select other users in real-time threads.

Status updates and activity feed

Users can view and post to a running record of current activities and statuses, akin to major social media platforms.

Notifications

Users can follow other users and/or join specific projects, electing to receive notifications when there are changes and updates.

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Users can join groups or message boards for forum-style collaboration.

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Users can see a catalog of the other users in their network, including whether those collaborators are online.

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Users can share links and documents with their networks via chat, status updates, or discussions, but sharing of sensitive material and/or sharing outside the network is appropriately restricted.

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Users can create and participate in surveys to get input from other collaborators.

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Users can author or access “How-to” help and reference tips about internal processes.

Integrates with Skype

Integrates with Skype for video conferencing.

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Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts

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Users can edit files and attach comments to files.

Shared folders

Users can create shared folders and invite other users or groups to collaborate by accessing or uploading files.

Access control

Users can control access to (shared) files, including different levels of access such as view-only or permission to edit.

Advanced security features

Includes advanced security features such as file encryption or remote data wipe.

Integrates with Google Drive

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Integrates with SharePoint

Device sync

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Web interface

A web interface, so that users can access files without installing anything.

File change notifications

Users receive notifications when files are changed by others.

Simultaneous editing

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MindLink

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