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	Law Enforcement: Providing a Highly Secure and Efficient System Forcepoint

Law Enforcement: Providing a Highly Secure and Efficient System

Forcepoint

Technology Category	Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
Applicable Industries	National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Cybersecurity
Services	System Integration Training
Challenge	The Law Enforcement agency's mission is to safeguard the United States from a variety of national security and criminal threats. This mission generates an extreme amount of data, of all different types and formats, that is used during investigations and as evidence in prosecuting court cases. This data must be securely captured, analyzed, managed, stored, and available to stakeholders when and where needed. The agency's overarching goal is to modernize its technology infrastructure in support of the mission. Part of this goal is to enhance information sharing both within the agency and with other agencies and organizations. One challenge inherent in the need to efficiently and securely share information is the sheer amount of data that needs to be shared – all with different formats, types, and sensitivities. All data collected, analyzed, and shared by this agency has the added challenge of becoming evidence in complex legal proceedings that can be governed by many different regulations. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a Law Enforcement agency whose mission is to safeguard the United States from a variety of national security and criminal threats – from physical attacks to cyber-based attacks. The execution of this mission generates an extreme amount of data, of all different types and formats, that is used during investigations and as evidence in prosecuting court cases. This data must be securely captured, analyzed, managed, stored, and available to stakeholders when and where needed. The agency's overarching goal is to modernize its technology infrastructure in support of the mission. Part of this goal is to enhance information sharing both within the agency and with other agencies and organizations. Read More
Solution	The types and amounts of data captured by this agency, coupled with their demanding performance requirements and unique custody rules, called for an enterprise cross domain transfer solution that could provide extremely fast transfer rates (up to 9 Gb/s) on readily available commodity hardware. Forcepoint High Speed Guard meets and exceeds these requirements. Forcepoint High Speed Guard provides this customer with the ability to securely and rapidly move eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based web service messages from sensitive networks to less restricted networks (high-to-low transfer). The Forcepoint High Speed Guard rules governing data movement through specific channels provide this customer with assurance that the data is handled to specifications and can be located at any point when the need arises. The agency’s initial implementation called for multiple Forcepoint High Speed Guard systems to support various sites, and included initial rule set development, integration support, training, and Assessment and Authorization (A&A) documentation templates. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security

Applicable Industries

National Security & Defense

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Services

System Integration

Training

Challenge

The Law Enforcement agency's mission is to safeguard the United States from a variety of national security and criminal threats. This mission generates an extreme amount of data, of all different types and formats, that is used during investigations and as evidence in prosecuting court cases. This data must be securely captured, analyzed, managed, stored, and available to stakeholders when and where needed. The agency's overarching goal is to modernize its technology infrastructure in support of the mission. Part of this goal is to enhance information sharing both within the agency and with other agencies and organizations. One challenge inherent in the need to efficiently and securely share information is the sheer amount of data that needs to be shared – all with different formats, types, and sensitivities. All data collected, analyzed, and shared by this agency has the added challenge of becoming evidence in complex legal proceedings that can be governed by many different regulations.

About Customer

The customer is a Law Enforcement agency whose mission is to safeguard the United States from a variety of national security and criminal threats – from physical attacks to cyber-based attacks. The execution of this mission generates an extreme amount of data, of all different types and formats, that is used during investigations and as evidence in prosecuting court cases. This data must be securely captured, analyzed, managed, stored, and available to stakeholders when and where needed. The agency's overarching goal is to modernize its technology infrastructure in support of the mission. Part of this goal is to enhance information sharing both within the agency and with other agencies and organizations.

Solution

The types and amounts of data captured by this agency, coupled with their demanding performance requirements and unique custody rules, called for an enterprise cross domain transfer solution that could provide extremely fast transfer rates (up to 9 Gb/s) on readily available commodity hardware. Forcepoint High Speed Guard meets and exceeds these requirements. Forcepoint High Speed Guard provides this customer with the ability to securely and rapidly move eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based web service messages from sensitive networks to less restricted networks (high-to-low transfer). The Forcepoint High Speed Guard rules governing data movement through specific channels provide this customer with assurance that the data is handled to specifications and can be located at any point when the need arises. The agency’s initial implementation called for multiple Forcepoint High Speed Guard systems to support various sites, and included initial rule set development, integration support, training, and Assessment and Authorization (A&A) documentation templates.

Impact #1	Forcepoint High Speed Guard contains highly-flexible plain text rule sets and filters that provide the ability to validate nearly limitless types of structured data.
Impact #2	The rule language combined with the high performance inherent in Forcepoint High Speed Guard allows this agency to consolidate multiple data flows onto fewer physical systems.
Impact #3	Forcepoint High Speed Guard’s ease of administration provides the agency with full on-site control from a single point.

Impact #1

Forcepoint High Speed Guard contains highly-flexible plain text rule sets and filters that provide the ability to validate nearly limitless types of structured data.

Impact #2

The rule language combined with the high performance inherent in Forcepoint High Speed Guard allows this agency to consolidate multiple data flows onto fewer physical systems.

Impact #3

Forcepoint High Speed Guard’s ease of administration provides the agency with full on-site control from a single point.

Benefit #1	The agency purchased additional Forcepoint High Speed Guard systems that allowed them to increase capability throughput, and performance in service of their mission.
Benefit #2	The agency is able to efficiently and securely control the flow of investigative data between all their varied capture, analysis and storage systems.
Benefit #3	Forcepoint High Speed Guard’s inherently flexible rule engine allows this customer to develop file transfer validation filters for virtually any structured data.

Benefit #1

The agency purchased additional Forcepoint High Speed Guard systems that allowed them to increase capability throughput, and performance in service of their mission.

Benefit #2

The agency is able to efficiently and securely control the flow of investigative data between all their varied capture, analysis and storage systems.

Benefit #3

Forcepoint High Speed Guard’s inherently flexible rule engine allows this customer to develop file transfer validation filters for virtually any structured data.

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Law Enforcement: Providing a Highly Secure and Efficient System

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