Why Ingress?

Law enforcement officers need quick access to information in the field. Prior to the implementation of Ingress, regional officers had limited access to applications, like the eSuperform, an automated jail booking and criminal history tool, and would have different sets of credentials for every application, creating delays and inefficiencies during field arrests.

In the meantime, King County was launching multiple applications for regional use and needed a way to manage access without creating an administrative nightmare. The issue to solve was administering over 4,000 users from over 45 different governments, including cities, counties, the state, tribal, federal government, and the Port of Seattle.

The technical solution to increase officer efficiency and safety, and streamline application administration, was the creation of the Ingress Security Gateway.

What is Ingress?

Ingress creates an administrative system that consists of a single sign-on security point, from which users can gain access to applications published within Ingress.

If an agency registrar has set the user up for access to an application, and the county agency that owns the application agrees, then the users gets in with just their Ingress log-on credentials.
Ingress also allows county agencies the ability to publish new applications for regional use.

Did you know?

King County's Ingress Security Gateway has been recognized as a recipient of CIO magazine's 2008 CIO 100 Award.

http://www.cio.com/cio100/detail/1842