Sponsored: The Agile Approach to Data at Rest Protection

Recent initiatives by the National Security Agency (NSA) have enabled alternatives to Type 1 security solutions by leveraging commercial technologies in a layered approach, thus saving time and money for classified programs. The Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) Program provides solution level specifications called Capability Packages (CP) to deliver data security solutions using approved components from leaders in commercial technology. In the Data at Rest CP data protection can be accomplished by integrating an inner and outer layer of hardware and software encryption where a self-encrypting solid state drive is the inner layer and either a file encryption or software full disk encryption solution would be the outer layer. These two independent components, while both using advanced encryption standard (AES) with 256-bit keys, incorporate different encryption algorithms, thus eliminating the likelihood of an adversary decoding both security layers therefore safeguarding classified, secret and top secret data.

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