Protecting Government Data With SecureView
A review of data breach incidents shows that foreign intelligence agencies remain focused on penetrating U.S. government organizations. Russia's ongoing hacking of U.S. assets are related to the historical competition between the two nations going back to the beginning of the Cold War. But Russia is not the only worry, as there are also worrisome hacking incidents tied to the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the China Ministry of State Security. From that part of the world North Korea also presents challenges. Close U.S. ally South Korea claims that North Korea pilfered classified military secrets tied to joint South Korea--U.S. operational plans. Finally, Iran remains a headache, and is linked to multiple malware and espionage incidents, in particular the hacking group that the company FireEye calls Advanced Persistent Threat 33.
U.S. government agencies must remain vigilant against all hacking threats, both known and unknown. And threats are real. Agencies that have been victimized include the National Security Agency, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Office of Personnel Management, the U.S. Postal Service, and the Internal Revenue Service.
SecureView government security, offered by NCS, helps locks down government secrets. It particularly addresses the need to protect employee acess to multiple protected networks from one workstation or PC.
Government and military are using virtualization tools at the desktop to most effeciently access these networks. SecureView, developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and implemented by NCS, is the virtualization solution of choice.
SecureView runs multiple securely isolated environments on one PC or workstation, with hardware-enforced security. This increasingly popular security solution is the result of extensive and continuing development work by AFRL, the open source community, Assured Information Security and NCS Technologies. The latest version, SecureView 3.0, will be available in the spring of 2018.
SecureView is a low-cost, multiple-independent-levels of security (MILS) workstation-based-COTS technology which is based on Type 1 or bare metal client hypervisor. It allows single computer-to-host multiple-guest VMs running at different classification levels.
Access Multiple Security Domains Easily and Securely
SecureView provides local application execution and concurrent access to multiple security domains. This supports mission requirements, giving analysts the needed performance to run advanced applications, assess threats and share findings across agencies. NCS Technologies systems approved for use include the Stratus MT and Stratus DT desktops and the Vortex MT and Vortex MDT workstations.
NCS Is a Preferred SecureView SupplierNCS has a long-term commitment to the SecureView marketplace and to the goverment workers who use SecureView.
Today, SecureView 2.3 is accredited and qualified to run on NCS desktop and workstation systems. NCS supports the memory and processing power required for the heavy workloads associated with running many VMs. The NCS development team works very closely with component vendors to optimize our hardware solutions - Vortex and Stratus computers - for SecureView implementations. NCS will deliver the exact form-factor needed, from the ultra-compact NUCs right up to full tower dual processor workstations.
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