Secure Communications Architecture and Platform for NATO – Designed for, and used in, military environments
Widely used across the UK and other European countries, in defence, military and national security organisations, Armour works closely with the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and has an enviable track record of delivering easy-to-use secure communications for use in the most challenging of higher assurance mission critical environments.
The Armour Secure Communications Platform protects communications within military environments, following Secure by Design and Secure by Default principles. It provides the capability for a federated, cross domain architecture for secure communications – voice, instant messaging and video conferencing – enabling interoperability across all NATO organisations. Flexible, easy-to-use and with a familiar user experience, Armour® is approved for use at, NATO RESTRICTED (and UNCLASSIFIED), UK OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE and (through our defence partnerships) at higher assurance levels.
The Armour Secure Communications Platform is ideally suited for NATO to support multi-domain operations and ensure secure, reliable, resilient and efficient collaboration across NATO Alliance members. Armour provides the option for on-premises, standalone, sovereign installations, that can be securely federated as required to facilitate secure interoperability.
On-Premises and NCSC Advanced Mobile Solutions Architecture
Armour has developed its solutions in line with the NCSC’s Advanced Mobile Solutions (AMS) architecture to deliver more secure solutions that are as easy and convenient to use as commercial/consumer mass-adoption apps. This enables organisations to set up a secure communications platform with high user adoption.
How Defence and Military organisations are using the Armour Secure Communications Platform
Whatever your sensitive communications requirements, Armour has a secure proven solution.
- Mission critical, sensitive data scenarios
- Secure communications up to higher assurance levels
- Mitigate foreign carrier and network risk
- Use over satellite if required
- Customer-defined phone identities (no requirement to use actual phone numbers)
- Robust security for organisations working collaboratively on projects, research and military operations
- Secure collaboration with friendly forces, local contacts, and for training
- Audit facilities for all communications and associated files
- Central management of applications and security settings
- Full user lifecycle management, from provisioning to service/data revocation
- Data Sovereignty – control your own data at all times
- Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) – Separate personal and business data
- Out-of-Band Communications during a crisis
- Supports low-cost, burner phones for total anonymity
- Secure interoperability between NATO capabilities, organisations and military groups
Award-winning Armour Comms solution
Armour has won multiple industry awards over a number of years, a testament to our commitment to providing innovative, useable and sustainable solutions to meet the ever evolving threat landscape.
- Multi-domain, multi-organisation structure with strictly siloed security means that Armour can augment and broaden secure communications and collaboration capabilities.
- Collaboration for a range of classification levels, can be provided via Armour’s Secure Cloud extending to include desktops, workstations and unified comms systems (such as office phone systems and third-party meeting systems).
- Alternatively, the Armour installation can be hosted and managed on-premises to give the organisation total data sovereignty to meet higher assurance needs.
- Different Armour Mobile installations can be ‘Federated’ to allow collaboration between their users
- User Communities in any installation can be segregated or allow-listed to permit collaboration, and to control communication between Federated instances.
- Suppliers and contractors can be added and removed as needed, and only allow-listed to collaborate with specific teams or projects.
Link: Read our new NATO white paper to see how Armour Comms can help your organisation to meet your secure mobile communications requirements.
