This paper examines the best practices commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware vendors must employ to establish a trusted supply chain, including managing obsolescence, counterfeit parts mitigation, secure manufacturing, and design integrity.

Learn about the innovative NSA CSfC program leveraging commercial encryption technologies in a layered approach for agile and cost-effective classified data protection.

Gain valuable insights into NSA High Assurance Type 1 encryption including device consideration factors, encryption algorithms, and certification processes.

This paper illustrates the current barriers to communication and situational understanding (SA) and orients the reader to tools that are available today to break down these barriers. Today’s warfighters can’t be impaired by a lack of information.

This whitepaper compares various CSfC network architectures, and proposes several approaches for CSfC solutions optimized for mobility use cases.

We explore the ever-evolving domain of network security, a key segment of embedded systems that’s been under the microscope as cyber threats become more common.

System developers must safeguard tactical information exchange and the integrity of command and control links between ground stations and airborne platforms.

NetOps and Cyber SA demand rapid and continuous innovation to meet evolving threats to DoD information dominance.

The CSfC data-at-rest (DAR) capability package has evolved over the last five to six years. Starting with the initial draft version 0.8 in July 2014, the DAR CP has matured as expected with the ever-increasing CSfC-based storage applications in the field.

A trusted computing system can ensure security at the potentially vulnerable entry points of system interfaces, yet this may compromise performance through design trade-offs that systems designers must compensate for.

We explore securing data transfer, performing testing, and leveraging existing processor features for trusted and secure application software.

This white paper looks at Trusted Boot, a key strategy for ensuring that the trustworthiness of an embedded system begins with the very first software instruction at system startup in order to protect against attacks.