Mercury Systems: National Information Assurance Partnership-Certified Self-Encrypting Commercial SSD for Classified Programs

Mercury Systems, Inc. announced that its ASURRE-Stor portfolio of self-encrypting SSDs has received certification from the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) for Common Criteria (CC) Full Disk Encryption FDE-EE and FDE-AA collaborative Protection Profiles (cPP).

Launched in April of 2017, ASURRE-Stor SSDs are engineered to meet the security and performance requirements defined in the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) program. As the first commercial SSD supplier to achieve this milestone, customers and NSA-trusted integrators of CSfC-compliant security solutions can leverage company’s NIAP-certified SSD for data at rest protection for classified, secret, and top secret programs according to CSfC program guidelines.

NIAP validates Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) information technology (IT) products for conformance to the international CC Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS). Required product testing is performed by third-party, NIAP-approved laboratories to certify compliance to the specified technology protection profiles. Having passed all required testing by UL Verification Services Inc., a NIAP-approved laboratory, the ASURRE-Stor SSD is now listed on the United States NIAP Product Compliant List and the International Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement Certified Products List. As such, Common Criteria certificate number CCEVS-VR-VID10783-2017 has been issued by NIAP for the ASURRE-Stor device.

A list of all NIAP-certified products, products in evaluation, and corresponding conformance claims can be found. ASURRE-Stor SSD has also received certificate #2884 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 cryptographic module certification.

“For many years, we have made substantial investments to develop key intellectual property in our security and microelectronics business,” said Charlie Leader, SVP and GM, advanced microelectronics solutions group, Mercury. “Having successfully pioneered the only certified security solution for highly sensitive storage on a commercial SSD, we have further validated our leadership position in this market. Our Phoenix Advanced Microelectronics Center is honored to supply the industry’s first NIAP and FIPS 140-2 certified SSD as a CSfC component to government agencies, CSfC trusted integrators and warfighters protecting our interests around the globe.“

Currently available in capacities of 256 and 512GB, ASURRE-Stor SSDs integrate cryptographic and reliability-enhancing algorithms in a military-hardened 2.5″ form factor for platform management, mission management and command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I) applications. In addition to uncompromising data protection features, supply chain security and trust are integrated throughout the entire product life cycle. The company’s commitment in industrial security has been recognized by the Defense Security Service (DSS) with multiple superior ratings for several of its facilities.

Company’s application engineering team in Phoenix, AZ routinely assists customers integrating high levels of security into their application environments.