With the current trend of moving intelligent services and administration towards the
public private partnership, and the security controls that are currently in place, the shareable
data modeling initiative has become a controversial issue. Existing applications often rely on
isolation or trusted networks for their access control or security, whereas untrusted wide area
networks pay little attention to the authenticity, integrity or confidentiality of the data they
transport. In this paper, we examine the issues that must be considered when providing network
access to an existing probation service environment. We describe how we intend to implement
the proposed solution in one probation service application. We describe the architecture that
allows remote access to the legacy application, providing it with encrypted communications and
strongly authenticated access control but without requiring any modifications to the underlying application
