Setting the Bar for Cross Domain Solutions Eliminating risk, removing silos and helping you complete your mission, faster

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2025-09-17T14:06:27.834+02:00 02 June 2020
How can organisations secure and defend themselves, while also using new technologies to increase their efficiency? Cross Domain Solutions offer the answer – here’s why…
Setting the Bar for Cross Domain Solutions

Technology is changing everything: the infrastructure that enables businesses, governments and security agencies, the way people live their lives, how organisations monitor and respond to an ever-evolving variety of cyber threats.

In this volatile world, organisations need to improve their ability to secure and defend themselves. They also need to find ways of using new technologies to increase their mission and business efficiency. 
Enter Cross Domain Solutions (CDS).

CDS enable users in secure government organisations to be able to move on from silos and ‘connect’ with other networks and systems, users and available resources from one desktop: simply, securely and quickly. 


Our work at a glance


We support the following two distinct classes of cross domain requirements:

  1. Access CDS: Users on sensitive networks need to be able to access the internet or view information on lower security networks.
  2. Transfer CDS: Sensitive information needs to be shared between users or machines across network boundaries, often where the networks are of different security classifications. 


Who benefits from Cross Domain Solutions?

CDS support national security and law enforcement agencies by allowing users to securely bring information from other sources, partners, and remote networks into a centralised location to build a unified intelligence picture. Examples include:

  • Ability to access the internet from a secure network
  • Sharing classified data with secure partners
  • Control of operational capability (e.g. video telemetry)

Defence organisations operate across many networks. They need to collaborate with other nations across sensitive networks but control what is shared; they need to communicate quickly while remaining secure and they need to bring data together for monitoring or operational advantage. Examples include:

  • Full motion video exploitation
  • Accessing commander briefings
  • Secure data and voice collaboration with partners

Many aspects of governing a nation require utmost confidentiality. From government classified documents, defence plans, foreign policy documents, all the way down to lists of employees, governments often find themselves needing to share information across security domains. Examples include:

  • Ability to access the internet from a secure network
  • Supporting and monitoring secure networks
  • Full email connectivity to secure networks

CDS provide critical national infrastructure organisations with new ways to enable secure information exchanges between business networks, management systems and the industrial operations they control. Examples include:

  • Operational Technology equipment monitoring from an IT network
  • Management of remote capability

CDS provide critical national infrastructure organisations with new ways to enable secure information exchanges between business networks, management systems and the industrial operations they control. Examples include:

  • Operational Technology equipment monitoring from an IT network
  • Management of remote capability

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As a global cross domain supplier, our security-cleared 5-eyes teams based in the UK, Australia and US deliver operational capability on a daily basis. If you would like to benefit from the freedom and efficiency provided by our CDS, please contact us.

 

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