Cigent is a cybersecurity company built by experts in advanced data recovery, secure storage, and data protection. With deep experience in data sanitization and exfiltration prevention, the company helps defense teams protect sensitive and classified data in demanding operational environments.
To support tactical edge deployments, Cigent collaborated with Curtiss-Wright to bring DAR protection to PacStar platforms, including PacStar 451, PacStar 452, PacStar 453, PacStar 454, and PacStar 455. Together, the solution helped defense teams deploy rugged compute, storage, and networking systems with stronger protection for mission data in vehicles, forward locations, tactical kits, and other physically exposed environments.
The Challenge
Defense teams increasingly rely on edge systems to support real-time intelligence, AI-enabled applications, sensor processing, video analytics, mission planning, and distributed command and control. These workloads generate and store sensitive mission data where physical exposure is part of the mission.
Protecting classified DAR in these environments requires more than standard storage or built-in operating system controls.
Defense teams need a layered security architecture that can enforce access before mission data becomes available, protect cryptographic materials, support validated components, and maintain control when systems are powered off, unattended, lost, captured, removed from a platform, or accessed outside approved operational workflows.
For programs pursuing Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC)-aligned DAR deployments, the challenge is implementing these protections in a way that remains operationally practical. Edge platforms need independently implemented layers that can be deployed consistently, managed centrally, and maintained across the full device lifecycle without increasing operational complexity, slowing field deployment, or creating additional burden for operators.
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