Alan Borland

Boldon James Ltd, a technology company providing data classification and military messaging solutions which enable customers to effectively protect data, enforce controls and manage data distribution, announces it has partnered with Germany’s solutions specialists for cryptography and Public Key Infrastructure, cv cryptovision GmbH. This partnership will provide government agencies and defence organisations with the ability to email securely across different security domains. The two organisations have been collaborating to develop a software component system which has now been deployed into a major German government agency. Enforcing communication protocols With enterprises, government agencies and institutions increasingly challenged with sending secure emails across multiple domains, Boldon James and cryptovision have integrated their respective products to deliver a combined solution to meet the growing need to protect data as it is used in increasingly remote and complex environments. Boldon James SAFEmail Military Messaging enforces communication protocols and delivers 'defence ready' secure messaging to NATO and other defence forces. For the past 20 years, Boldon James has been pioneering the way with Military Messaging Handling Systems (MMHS) using Microsoft Exchange as the core messaging service. SAFEmail enables the safe handling and control of a wide range of sensitive data from unclassified data to the high levels of restricted Government classifications across a variety of messaging environments. Strongest encryption methods Cryptovision’s GreenShield Suite is a complete solution for email encryption and digital signatures Cryptovision’s GreenShield Suite is a complete solution for email encryption and digital signatures, delivering the highest level of security and user convenience. It is approved by the BSI (German Federal Office for Information Security) for VS-NfD, NATO and EU-restricted communication. The solution offers end-to-end encryption with the strongest encryption methods currently available in the market. The GreenShield Suite consists of two products, GreenShield File and Mail, seamlessly integrated in Microsoft Outlook, IBM Notes and Microsoft Windows. Both products work collaboratively to ensure files can be encrypted and securely managed in the usual working environment. These are integrated into the respective email systems and enable the secure processing of emails including attachments. High levels of confidentiality Alan Borland, SAFEmail Product Manager at Boldon James, said: “With government and military agency emails in danger of falling into the wrong hands, Boldon James is keen to innovate to meet the demands we see in this space. By integrating our military messaging and data classification solutions with cryptovision’s encryption and security functionalities, this enables us to offer a solution that supports the needs of this growing marketplace.” Ralf König, Senior Product Manager at cryptovision comments: “This integration enables cryptovision to deliver a solution where intended email recipients are able to decrypt and read the message in a safe and secure environment. With Boldon James we aim to ensure the high levels of confidentiality required by many of our military and government clients based in NATO and EU member states.”

Boldon James Ltd, a technology company providing integration with powerful data security and governance ecosystems to enable customers to effectively classify data, enforce controls and manage data distribution, announces it has partnered with Germany’s cross domain solutions company INFODAS to provide NATO nations, military and defence organisations with the ability to email securely across different security domains. Trusted labelling solution The two organisations have been working together to develop a trusted labelling solution required for NATO’s stringent standards to ensure a highly secure approach. With military and defence organisations challenged with sending emails across multiple security domains, Boldon James and INFODAS have integrated their respective products to deliver a common work environment. Boldon James SAFEmail Military Messaging enforces communication protocols and delivers edge 'defence ready' secure messaging to NATO and other defence forces. For the past 20 years, Boldon James has been on the way with Military Messaging Handling Systems (MMHS) using Microsoft Exchange as the core messaging service. SAFEmail enables the safe handling and control of a wide range of sensitive data from unclassified data to the high levels of restricted Government Classifications across a variety of messaging environments. Information exchange gateway Both companies have been working on supporting specific NATO standards for several years INFODAS SDoT Security Gateway delivers bi-directional data exchange and filtering of structured and unstructured data objects. Designed and manufactured in Germany SDoT products are accredited to meet the highest security requirements of the German Federal Office of Information Security (BSI), EU and NATO. For the past decade it has been used in the toughest mission critical environments around the world. As a cross domain solution, the SDoT information exchange gateway or data guard solves complex data exchange and protection challenges of government, defence and critical infrastructure clients while ensuring logical separation of security domains. Both companies have been working on supporting specific NATO standards for several years and have strong heritage working with the military, homeland security, intelligence, and civil agencies. This has involved supporting the full evolution of relevant NATO STANAGs (Standard NATO Agreements) from early draft revisions through to the latest versions agreed by member nations. Data classification solutions Alan Borland, SAFEmail Product Manager at Boldon James said: “With NATO labelling and data protection approaches evolving to address new threats and opportunities, Boldon James continues to innovate to meet these demands. By closely aligning our military messaging and data classification solutions with INFODAS cross domain solutions this enables us to offer an end to end solution that supports the emerging NATO standards. Boldon James provides the data classification element and INFODAS provides the information exchange gateway (IEG).” Our solution solves a key challenge in domestic and international military and government digitisation projects" Dr Alexander Schellong, VP Global Business at INFODAS comments: “Clients for some time have asked us for an integrated end-to-end solution of these highly complementary products and we delivered. This new partnership enables a broad range of multi-domain data sharing scenarios.” “Our solution solves a key challenge in domestic and international military and government digitisation projects to protect sensitive data while sharing any data that could be shared to fulfil their mission. Together with Boldon James we will ensure that our joint solutions are applicable for both NATO organisations and commercial environments, not just today but well into the future.” Including additional metadata The two organisations are at the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Exercise (CWIX) 2020 (8th to 25th June, 2020) which demonstrates the resilience of NATO and partner nations as they continue to innovate in order to improve interoperability. During CWIX, Boldon James and INFODAS will be working with NATO to showcase proof of concepts to deliver the trusted labelling required for the new NATO STANAG 4774/4778. The new STANAG 4774 Confidentiality Label includes the traditional classification and caveats seen in email labelling and critically now includes additional metadata, such as the creator of the label, the creation time, the expiry time and much more. The Metadata Binding Standard (STANAG 4778) is the companion document to the Confidentiality Labelling Standard, and provides a consistent method for binding the Confidentiality Label to the information throughout its lifecycle, and between the sharing parties.