Viasat Expanding Encryption Offerings to 'Five Eyes' Nations

guest · Sep 12, 2019

Viasat Expanding Encryption Offerings to 'Five Eyes' Nations
September 12, 2019
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine...ding-encryption-offering-to-five-eyes-nations

Viasat, a U.S.-based global communications company, is expanding its line of network encryption products to Five Eyes nations.
Five Eyes — an intelligence-sharing alliance — is made up of the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

“The crypto equipment … in our portfolio has been available to Five Eyes countries, but it was confined to those applications where it was providing interoperability between U.S. forces and Five Eyes forces so that they could share data and situational awareness information,” said Ken Peterman, president of government systems at the company.
However, after receiving U.S. government agency approvals, it is now expanding its line to all member nations for broader use purposes, he said during an interview at this week's Defence and Security Equipment International conference in London.

Viasat supports network protocols such as Type 1 encryption for both Layer 2 Ethernet Data Encryption — pending certification from the U.S. National Security Agency — and Layer 3 High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor, according to a company press release.
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Viasat could sell its technology to the partner nations using the foreign military sale or direct commercial sale processes, but it would require certain approvals, Peterman added.

Additionally, the company is “supporting software programmability in these cryptographic devices so that we can readily embrace new and emergent networking protocols and schemes as those become available,” he said.
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