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SafeNet Begins Beta Testing KIV-7M At Government Sites.
SecurityProNews
Staff Writer
2005-05-07
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SafeNet subsidiary Mykotronx, Inc. has begun Beta testing its new KIV-7M at U.S. Government sites.
The KIV-7M is among the first products available that are fully compliant with the U.S. Government's Cryptographic Modernization Initiative administered by the National Security Agency. Through this Initiative, the U.S. Government has the ability to upgrade the security infrastructure of its communication architectures to meet present and future security needs.
The KIV-7M recently had its first public presentation at the quarterly meeting of the Cryptographic Modernization Working Group (CMWG) held in Linthicum MD. The KIV-7M has been in development during the last two years and meets the requirements of the NSA's Link Encryptor Family Interoperability Specification (LEFIS), which mandates modes of operation to provide interoperability. SafeNet expects to finish internal testing of the product in May after which the National Security Agency will complete the security verification process enabling first shipments to the field in the third quarter of 2005.
"We are very excited about the future of U.S. Government security implementations and the role that KIV-7M will play in meeting these requirements," said Jim Summers, President of SafeNet Mykotronx, "The KIV-7M has all the capability of its predecessors and adds new capabilities which permit traditional secure communications architectures to migrate seamlessly to the Global Information Grid."
The compact and rugged KIV-7M is a multichannel, multifunction encryptor and facilitates users to interoperate with a number of legacy devices in a single unit reducing user operating costs and saving valuable space and weight aboard vehicles, ships and aircraft. It is fully reprogrammable permitting it to be reconfigured for new security features as they are developed and it is network-capable by the addition of an optional HAIPE-compliant interface card.
"The KIV-7M is the newest member of the KIV-7 family. By polling the users of our current KIV-7 products, we determined the features most desired and overlaid the requirements of the NSA Crypto-Modernization Initiative and the Global Information Grid--the result is the KIV-7M," said Chris Fedde, Senior Vice President and General Manager for SafeNet's Enterprise Security Division.
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