Nexor Proves Tactical Guarding Concepts for BCIP6

Nexor, a provider of security solutions to meet the information assurance needs of the military and government sectors, has completed a successful contribution to General Dynamics UK’s (GDUK) BCIP6 Technical Demonstration Programme (TDP) by showing both domain and multi-protocol guarding in a tactical environment.

The TDP required GDUK, in partnership with the MoD DE&S BATCIS IPT, to provide a view of potential capabilities available in BCIP6. It was designed to inform options for capability enhancements for battlespace information management, improved interoperability with UK and allied systems, and improved resilience through advanced system management. A specific requirement of the TDP was to show a mechanism to control the flow of information based on security policy, thereby proving the ability to enable and appropriately protect connections between domains of different security classifications. Nexor was invited to join the TDP to demonstrate this capability.

Nexor deployed the Watchman component of its Border Gateway COTS suite to validate the security policy on the domain boundary and to implement dirty word checking. Nexor also deployed military extensions to commercial instant messaging products to show additional security measures and tracking features in an instant messaging environment. Nexor extended the XMPP protocol to include security labelling of chat sessions. These enhancements demonstrated how increased security and assurance can be incorporated into an instant messaging system by validating security policies between domains, in this case between an appropriate UK representative domain (created for the TDP) and the BOWMAN domain.

A second demonstration utilised the Mailer and Watchman components of the Nexor Border Gateway, running on the Linux operating system, to validate security labels and control the flow of information based on security policy. This was implemented on the border between two domains containing Microsoft Exchange Servers utilising the SMTP protocol.

The TDP provided MoD with a clear insight of the benefits of an open architecture utilising industry standards to accelerate time to field, whilst maximising industry technological advances.

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