Enable data sharing between information classification boundaries or domains, such as high-side and low-side environments.
What is a Cross Domain Solution for Matrix?
A Cross Domain Solution (CDS) enables the secure import and export of data between separate Matrix-based domains, supporting both cross-domain and cross-classification communications with configurable rules-based access.
The CDS is a combination of software and hardware that sits at the edge of a trusted network, sanitizing data exchanges between the trusted network and other domains. It operates as a gatekeeper, guarding against security threats associated with standard network connectivity. The gatekeeping operation can operate one-way, or bidirectionally.
What are the benefits of Element Cross Domain Solutions?
The potential threats of network connectivity have left high-side environments siloed. Yet even the world’s most secure operations need to communicate externally, and increasingly in real time.
Highly-controlled data exchange, subject to bespoke policy, enables high-side environments to transform their operations while minimizing risk.
How do Element Cross-Domain Solutions work?
By significantly enhancing information assurance through a controlled interface that enables or restricts access and information transfer between separate domains. To protect the high-side environment, input is typically sanitized through a protocol break and output is protected by authorized monitoring and content scanning.
The CDS operates according to bespoke, predetermined security policy which is agreed with the data controller on a case-by-case basis. Typically a CDS is built to specification and embedded within custom hardware. Element works with all cross domain hardware vendors.