Dave Holman, director and co-founder of Armour Comms, explains what they are and why we’re introducing them.
Armour® Communications will soon be celebrating our 10th anniversary. In that time the technological and threat landscape has changed considerably. Our product set has grown from a single solution to provide robustly secure mobile communications, mainly for voice calls and instant messaging, to a comprehensive platform for secure collaboration.
The multi award-winning Armour Secure Communications Platform now incorporates secure video conferencing, file attachments, and comprehensive interoperability via any number of integrations and bridges to other technologies. Secure archive and audit are now also available – a hugely complex piece of engineering to support compliance requirements of regulated industries such as financial services, health, and legal, and those that need to comply with Freedom of Information requests, such as local authorities, NHS, blue light services and organisations providing critical national infrastructure.
The Armour Secure Comms Platform meets the NCSC’s 7 Principles of Secure Communication and is Secure by Design and Default. It also provides UK data sovereignty – something which mass adoption services such as Microsoft Teams cannot – even for government customers.
All this to make secure collaboration seamless, and as easy to use as a consumer product
Growing requirements to meet a growing threat level
As our solution capability has grown so too has our customer base, in terms of both numbers and breadth of industry sectors served. Once secure comms was the preserve of government departments (although sometimes news stories would belie this fact!), special services, military and other security conscious organisations. Now with threat levels rising exponentially and the advent of AI and deepfake technology, many more organisations are looking to protect their business communications, ensure compliance with data protection legislation and guard against financial fraud.
Packaged solutions to meet different requirements
With all of this in mind we have put a great deal of thought into how we can best present our products in a series of packaged bundles, to make it easier for organisations to ascertain the level of service that they require and then procure it for a simple price per user that makes budgeting more transparent. The Armour Secure Communications Platform is now available in a range of flexible packages to suit most deployment requirements from a fully managed, turnkey solution; to hosted/self-managed; and full on-premises installations.
In brief here are the three packages, all of which can be tailored to meet specific requirements.
Armour Cloud
A fully managed SaaS solution for standard deployments for SMB/SME sized organisations, with one simple affordable price and a minimum user base of 100 licences. Armour Cloud™ is aimed at organisations looking to replace the use of consumer apps, improve security of mobile communications mitigating deepfake and impostor-based cyber threats, retain control of corporate data including data sovereignty, and for improved security, GDPR and regulatory reasons.
Armour Cloud is also ideal for organisations looking for an out-of-band communications channel with which to handle incidents or to protect sensitive C-suite communications.
Armour Cloud+
A SaaS solution for SMB/SME sized organisations to manage their own users for standard deployments, with a minimum user base of 250 licences. The package includes secure recording, archiving and audit of voice and instant messaging conversations, with interoperability by extending the reach of mobile secure communications to enterprise unified communications systems which include desk phones and IP soft phones.
Armour Cloud+ is ideal for any regulated organisation and those that needs to respond to Freedom of Information requests.
Secure video conferencing can be added as an optional extra, as required.
Armour Enterprise
Configured to provide a solution that supports the robust requirements of higher assurance and SME/Enterprise organisations that need complete control over all aspects of their secure communications. Armour Enterprise™ is provided as either an on-premises implementation or via a number of SaaS options. Secure interoperability with enterprise unified communications including desk and IP soft phones, secure video conferencing and secure archive and audit are also included within the packaged price. Armour Enterprise has a minimum user base of 50 licences.
For more detail please download our new Packages brochure: CLICK HERE
