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EADS Defence & Security unveils revolutionary new technology to assist in fighting terror, organised crime and fraud
EADS Defence & Security launches a revolutionary new cryptographic technology, capable of providing governments and industry with the highest levels of communications security over the internet.
EADS DS cryptographic experts and scientists at their base in Newport South Wales have spent 5 years developing this new security technology, which uses more than one million lines of certified code. Ectocryp has many applications but some of the earliest uses will be in the continuing battle against terror and organised crime.
Until now, sensitive data used by government has needed to be sent over stand-alone networks which are slow, costly to set up and maintain, and vulnerable to hacking. Ectocryp enables governments to use existing networks and the Internet securely, and with complete confidence.
Len Tyler, CEO EADS Defence and Security Systems Ltd. said, “Ectocryp means that for the first time ever, government departments can transmit Top Secret information over the public internet securely. This is essentially Enigma for the 21st century and it is a good demonstration of how far technology has moved on; it would take a team of cryptographers at least 36 months to transcribe the bible using an Enigma machine, compared to EADS’ Ectocryp product which could perform the same task in less than one second and protect the network it used at the same time.”
Steve Howarth, head of the programme from EADS DS said, “Currently, sensitive data is generally exchanged on very high grade government lines. It’s expensive to do that and takes a lot of monitoring. Organisations using Ectocryp can potentially save at least 25 per cent of infrastructure costs.”
The technology means information can be passed much more quickly too. For example, Ectocryp could be used in systems for undercover surveillance operations where field agents have not had access to secure networks in the past, but need to access data quickly. Another example might be if suspected terrorists were apprehended in a different part of the country from where anti-terrorist resources were based, this technology could allow secure live video streaming over the internet – previously only available via expensive dedicated lines that, with existing crypto enhancements, were difficult to access and slowed down the data transfer rates to below real-time needs.
