Deep-Secure Ltd’s Business Development Manager Colin Nash has been selected to receive the prestigious 2010 Meritorious Service Award by AFCEA[1] at next week’s TechNet International (28-29 October) in London, UK. After being presented with the award, Colin will be addressing delegates at the ‘Integrating Cyberspace into Battlespace’ event, showcasing the work conducted with Transglobal Secure Collaboration Programme (TSCP) in securing the Defence Supply Chain.
The two day long conference held at The Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in London, is organised by AFCEA and will focus on the operational and technical challenges that face today’s battlespace commanders as they seek to establish a balance between bytes versus bullets and bombs.
After a 25 year career in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and retiring as a Captain in 1996, Colin worked at QinetiQ, formerly DERA, and for five years managed its Information Security Consultancy Business where he was involved in a range of projects that covered high security work in both the Defence and Public Services Sectors.
Colin said: “I am delighted to be selected to receive such a prestigious industry award and to be able to address the delegates at TechNet with our latest work in the Cyber Security arena. At Deep-Secure we have a proven track record within the strictest data security environments including UK Ministry of Defence, Security Services, Government and commercial networks carrying business or client-sensitive data. We are passionate about our contribution to this industry and it’s extremely rewarding to receive such an accolade.”
Speaking about Colin’s award, President and CEO of AFCEA International Kent Schneider said: “Congratulations on this special recognition, we are extremely fortunate to have you on the AFCEA team - it is the dedication and commitment of members like you who make our work here at Headquarters rewarding - and fun! We look forward to congratulating you in person.”
Following his award presentation Colin will be addressing the delegates to showcase the work conducted with TSCP in securing the Defence Supply Chain through the use of Secure Email and the Deep-Secure Mail and Directory Guards.
The presentation is based on the work with UK MOD during the summer at CWID2010 which offered secure information exchange between a CWID[2] notional ‘UK Restricted’ domain (UK MoD) and a number of external domains which were connected through the Internet. These included BAE Systems TSCP Test Lab in the UK, US CWID at Dahlgren, Certipath in the US and the Deep-Secure Test Lab in the UK. Certipath provided the TSCP Federal Bridge to allow cross certification of PKI certificates.
Speaking about his forthcoming talk Colin said: “The TechNet presentation will share how the Guard was constructed to meet the PKI requirements and TSCP specification for secure email and what was achieved during the demonstration at CWID.
“It will show how labelled, signed and encrypted information was securely exchanged between Warfighters and simulated Embassies, NGOs and the Provisional Police as part of the CWID scenarios. It will outline the use cases carried out to achieve the collective identified aims to support the operational command requirements to provide secure interoperability and the community interests in building a secure collaborative environment appropriately protected within Cyberspace.”
TechNet International is one of a number of high profile industry events that Deep-Secure contribute to throughout the year. Last month it showcased its high-assurance guard XMPP Chat Sessions during the NATO Information Assurance Symposium in Belgium, demonstrated its ground-breaking Web (HTTP) and Chat (XMPP) Guard at TSCP’s Business Week event in Washington DC and earlier on in the year it demonstrated and tested its Email Boundary Guard compliant with the TSCP specification at the MoD CWID.
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Notes to Editors
Deep-Secure Limited, formerly operating as the Specialist Products Division of Clearswift, has built up a reputation as the premier provider of high assurance data sharing products for Defence and Government organisations around the world.
Our customers include UK MoD, UK Government, NATO, Australian Defence, BAE Systems and many of the global system integrators. All typically require that the solutions are comprehensively evaluated to the Common Criteria EAL4 standard and this requires Deep-Secure’s specialist levels of security knowledge, development and engineering expertise.
Deep-Secure offers highly configurable solutions built around a core set of evaluated products that meet both current and emerging needs for secure data sharing for email, web and IM platforms.
TSCP unites public and private sector partners by:
Delivering standards-based interoperable specifications for controlled, secure information sharing
Addressing technical and international regulatory challenges with custom solutions approved by all participants
Offering a direct forum for providers of information sharing solutions to determine new specifications with international government organisations and key aerospace and defence contractors
Adding new collaborative partners, solutions providers and vendor partners to drive rapid global adoption of new specifications
Providing an open library of secure specifications – spreading the adoption of new standards well beyond the core focus on the aerospace and defence sector
DeepSecure is an advanced content checking and policy enforcement system which offers protection against the deliberate or accidental release of sensitive information to unauthorised people within the most stringent security environments. This includes checking encrypted or signed messages.
In addition to enjoying the protection of Bastion’s EAL4 evaluation for network separation, DeepSecure’s Policy Server is separately evaluated to EAL4 for the application and enforcement of policy through our ClearPoint management interface.
Our content security technology can also be applied as a stand-alone package, DeepSecure Lite, in closed environments where firewall protection is provided at the network security layer or within environments having low impact levels.
Deep-Secure Mail Guard for TSCP Secure Email and LDAP Proxy – key capabilities
Interoperability between organisations with encrypted email.
Options for decrypting and encrypting email at the boundary.
Options for label checking email at the boundary.
Integrated support for virus scanning and content checking as part of EAL4 evaluation
Retrieving certificates from external connection via LDAP Proxy
Multiple protocol support for a single guarding solution, broadening the scope of security checking email and web services
Management and administration via Windows environment, requiring no additional skills.
DeepSecure Web and Chat Guard – key capabilities
Reduced power, weight, heat and size
Centralised management for all deployed Gateways
Easy to use GUI Interface
One policy engine and one set of rules covering all protocols
Multiple protocols in one Gateway (email, web and chat)
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[1] Association for Communications, Electronics, Intelligence and Information Systems Professionals
[2] Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration