Communications Security R&D
Abstract
The Information Systems Security Program (ISSP) Research Development Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) efforts provide cybersecurity and Defensive Cyberspace Operations (DCO) solutions to protect the forward deployed, bandwidth-limited, highly mobile naval information subscriber and the associated command, control, and communications required to achieve the integrated military advantage from Net-Centric operations. The ISSP addresses engineering design, development, modeling, simulation, test, and evaluation for the unique cybersecurity challenges associated with dispersed, bandwidth-limited, and forward-tactical connected U.S. Navy communications systems. This project includes a rapidly evolving design and application engineering effort to modernize cryptographic equipment and ancillaries with state-of-the-art replacements to counter evolving and increasingly sophisticated threats. Communications Security (COMSEC) and Transmission Security (TRANSEC) are evolving from stand-alone, dedicated devices to embedded modules incorporating National Security Agency (NSA) approved cryptographic engines, loaded with the certified algorithms and key, and interconnected via industry-defined interfaces. This includes the Department of Defense (DoD) Information Network (DoDIN) capability requirements document for the development of Content Based Encryption (CBE). In addition to protecting national security information, the ISSP provides enterprise-wide cybersecurity for statutorily protected information. The ISSP must also provide solutions to the most advanced state-sponsored and criminal-intent Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), including those to Platform Information Technology (PIT), weapons systems, Industrial Control Systems (ICS), and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA). The ISSP provides dynamic risk-managed cybersecurity solutions to the Navy information infrastructure (i.e., C4I Afloat and Shore Networks), not just security devices placed within a network. Few technology areas change as fast as telecommunications, computers and network security, resulting in the need for continuous evaluation, development, and testing of cybersecurity products and cyber defense strategies. The ISSP efforts in support of this environment include developing or applying: (1) Computer Network Defense (CND) cybersecurity technologies required to support strategic and tactical cyber operations; (2) Task Force Cyber Awakening (TFCA) initiatives, specifically Navy Cyber Situational Awareness (NCSA), and Operation Rolling Tide (ORT)/Cyber Remediation capabilities that will accelerate the Navy's ability to prevent, constrain, and mitigate cyberattacks and critical vulnerabilities and improve overall situational awareness of network status; (3) technology to interconnect networks of dissimilar classification and need-to-know, known respectively as Cross Domain Solutions (CDS) and Virtual Secure Enclaves (VSE); (4) new cryptography secure voice and secure data prototypes and protocols and associated technology for capable programmable COMSEC and TRANSEC devices and software; (5) Key Management (KM); (6) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and associated access control technologies that provide assured and persistent Identity and Access Management (IdAM) for persons, virtual instances, and connected devices. FY 17 Highlights for Information Systems Security Programs (ISSP): ISSP efforts that address the risk management of cyberspace, which includes the capabilities to protect, detect, restore, and respond to the following: (1) Technologies supporting the Navy's Computer Network Defense (CND) service provider and the advancement of critical TFCA and ORT/Cyber Remediation initiatives, that will accelerate the Navy's ability to prevent, constrain, analyze and mitigate cyberattacks and critical vulnerabilities, as well as NCSA capabilities that will provide greatly improved cyber threat intelligence and situational awareness; (2) Navy Crypto engineering efforts to modernize cryptographic equipment and ancillaries with state-of-the-art replacements to counter evolving and increasingly sophisticated threats to the Navy's telecommunications infrastructure and the wireless spectrum; (3) supporting assurance technologies, including EKMS/KMI and the PKI/IdAM; (4) Cybersecurity services that continue to provide security systems engineering support for the development of DoD and Department of Navy (DoN) cybersecurity architectures, alignment with JRSS, and the transition of new technologies to address Navy cybersecurity challenges.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Source ID
- 0734_0303140N_7_1319_PB_2017
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