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Cross Domain
Solutions
Solve today’s problems
Redefine tomorrow
Information sharing has become critical to maintaining national security. Agencies need to
communicate mission-critical information between people, organizations, locations, communities
of interest, and security domains, while ensuring exchange of correct and authorized data with
authorized recipients. To solve this problem, agencies need to employ a cross domain solution that
provides assured information sharing with the ability to securely transfer information between two or
more differing communities of interest or security domains.
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SafeNet’s MDeX System, an assured information sharing and cross
domain solution, provides a reliable, secure, and configurable means
of transferring information between domains for all Intelligence
Community, Department of Defense, and other sensitive operations.
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Remote Management Station:
Enterprise management appliance for policy
and security management, command and
control, and monitoring.
MDeX System Key Attributes
Remote Management—Provides the enterprise the ability to maintain situational
awareness of cross domain data flows via a standard Web interface for policy management,
audit reduction and analysis, event management, system management, and health and
status monitoring. The MDeX System interacts with enterprise service providers for the
exchange of audit, health & status, and operational state information. A single remote
management station can manage multiple MDeX transfer systems.
Dynamic Policy Enforcement—Provides the ability for data owners to establish granular
information flow and content filtering policies dynamically as mission needs change. The
mission agile system can be reconfigured in minutes to hours, not days. Policy creation
and modification can be done through drop-down options in an easy-to-use, intuitive GUI.
Policies are represented internally using standard eXtensible Access Control Markup
Language (XACML).
Trusted Core Assurance —Provides the ability for the enterprise to integrate multiple
security and information domains into a converged security information exchange and
transport infrastructure. The core engine initiates all connectivity to control information
flow between multiple domains and prevent unauthorized connections or information
exchanges. Content filtering and inspection capabilities are through an Obligation engine
with an associated API. The use of edge interfaces and the Obligation engine enable protocol
and content filtering changes without impacting the Trusted Core. This establishes the
assurance framework for the MDeX System so that it is certified once and accredited many
times throughout the enterprise.
Protocol Interface Adaptability—Provides the ability for application owners to enable
cross domain enable legacy and modernized information exchange systems. The MDeX system
edge interface acts as a protocol break, as well as an object queue manager. The system
is delivered with pre-developed clients for Java Message Services (JMS), Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol (SMTP), and file transport. The edge interface API allows for easy integration of other
applications that are specific to a customer’s environment. Template obligations (i.e., content
filters) are provided with the MDeX System and can be used to quickly generate policies
specific to mission and infrastructure objects (e.g., mail attachments, files, messages). The
Obligation API allows customer development teams to easily develop new Java-based content
filters or integrate existing content filters as native obligations.
High Performance and Availability—Message transfers with low latency and
throughput rates up to 10K 2KB msgs/sec to address mission and infrastructure needs for
rapid delivery of time-sensitive information. Robust high-performance appliance platforms
and clustering configurations ensure 99.999% up time.
Lower TCO—The 1U form factor drastically reduces power, space, and cooling
requirements. The reuse of existing transport protocols and obligations through APIs
provides shorter turn-around time for mission and infrastructure applications to be cross
domain enabled. The operator-based remote management capability reduces learning
curves, eliminates the need for acquiring high expertise administrators, and centralizes
cross domain management capabilities.
Meeting Real-World Assured
Information Sharing Needs
Missions, objectives, and
communities of interest are subject
to constant adaptation, posing
substantial challenges to mission
managers as they pursue effective
solutions for Warfighters. A practical
cross domain solution shares this
burden of adaptation by providing
the flexible framework, architecture,
and tool sets necessary for
adaptable, compliant, and assured
information sharing. SafeNet’s MDeX
System was specifically designed to
answer these long-established needs
and provide a truly mission-agile
cross domain solution.
About SafeNet, Inc.
Founded in 1983, SafeNet is a global
leader in information security.
SafeNet protects its customers’ most
valuable assets, including identities,
transactions, communications,
data and software licensing,
throughout the data lifecycle. More
than 25,000 customers across
both commercial enterprises and
government agencies and in over
100 countries trust their information
security needs to SafeNet. For more
information, visit
www.safenet-inc.com/government.