Mercury Systems: Availability of Asurre-Stor Self-Encrypting 2.5-Inch SSDs

Mercury Systems, Inc. announced the commercial availability of its ASURRE-Stor portfolio of self-encrypting SSDs designed and manufactured at company’s DMEA-trusted facility in Phoenix, AZ.

Firm’s newest product is engineered to the rigorous specifications dictated by the Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) program, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 standards, and the Common Crteria Full Disk Encrypion FDE-EE and DE-AA collaborative Protection Profiles (cPP). Today, customers and trusted integrators can begin integrating company’s self-encrypting SSD into their security designs to protect classified, secret and top secret data with the strength of advanced encryption standard with 256 bit keys in the XTS block cipher mode (AES-256 XTS).

Launched by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Security Service (CSS), the CSfC program protects highly sensitive data by simultaneously implementing two compliant commercial security components in layers. Unlike Government Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) Type 1 security solutions, the CSfC program leverages rapidly deployed, highly agile commercial technologies for data at rest protection of highly sensitive data. The NSA actively maintains a database of trusted security components available for CSfC implementation, inclusive of both hardware and software-based commercial technologies. Additional details on the CSfC program are available on the NSA website.

“Having pioneered the incorporation of AES-256 XTS encryption into secure SSDs in 2009, Mercury continues to lead and invest in state of the art microelec,nics and security technologies for the defense industry,” said Charlie Leader, VP and GM, advanced microelectronics solutions group, Mercury. “With implementation of our ASURRE-Stor device in a customer’s two-layer CSfC solution today, Mercury provides our warfighters with a cost-effective, quickly implemented hardware FDE component designed and manufactured in the United States.“

At the core of the ruggedized product is company’s ARMOR processor, an SSD controller designed and manufactured in the United States. Using a suite of certified cryptographic algorithms developed by the firm for highly secure defense applications, the ARMOR processor integrates data at rest protection with predictable, sustained performance in thermally and mechanically stressful operating environments.

In contrast to commercial SSD devices for consumer and enterprise applications, the offering from the firm marries high-endurance NAND flash with a SWaP-optimized, military-hardened 2.5″ form factor optimized for high duty cycle operation in the most severe land, air, and sea operating environments. In the event of unforeseen power loss during operation, custom power management circuitry preserves data integrity without the use of temperature-sensitive capacitor or battery technologies.

ASSURE-Stor SSDs can be ordered immediately, with fulfillment in approximately 60 days.

Company’s application engineering team is available to assist customers integrating the highest levels of security into their unique storage application environments.