Product References

TECH BRIEF www.mrcy.com ACQUIRE ACQUIRE ACQUIRE 100101010 001101011 110101100 DIGITIZE ACQUIRE ACQUIRE 100101010 001101011 110101100 DIGITIZE 100101010 001101011 110101100 DIGITIZE PROCESS PROCESS STORAGE STORAGE EXPLOIT EXPLOIT DISSEMINATE ACQUIRE ACQUIRE 100101010 001101011 110101100 DIGITIZE 100101010 001101011 110101100 DIGITIZE PROCESS PROCESS STORAGE STORAGE EXPLOIT ACQUIRE ACQUIRE 100101010 001101011 110101100 DIGITIZE 100101010 001101011 110101100 DIGITIZE PROCESS ACQUIRE ACQUIRE 100101010 001101011 110101100 DIGITIZE 100101010 001101011 110101100 DIGITIZE PROCESS PROCESS STORAGE STORAGE Mercury Systems is a leading commercial provider of secure sensor and safety-critical processing subsystems. Optimized for customer and mission success, Mercury's solutions power a wide variety of critical defense and intelligence programs. Many options exist for system architects designing in data security to their military embedded systems. Robust file and endpoint encryption packages are available that are easily upgradable and deployable across a large network of devices in a short period of time. However, software running on an operating system can be altered, hacked and possibly even removed — leaving data vulnerable to adversarial capture. When mission critical, classified and top secret data needs protection, there are other far more secure methods to consider. Self-encrypting hardware, such as Mercury's portfolio of secure solid-state drives (SSD), provide the ultimate data security. This tech brief explores Mercury's "five S's" of secure data storage for military embedded systems: SWaP (size, weight, and power), Speed, Security, Sanitize and Self-Destruct. SWaP System architects are challenged to pack more sensor and processing capabilities into the SWaP-constraint environments of unmanned and mobile communication systems widely used in modern warfare. There is less room for conventional storage like hard disk drives with rotating magnetic media. SSD devices using non-volatile NAND flash memory offer substantially higher sustained read and write speeds with low power consumption which can be customized for each unique application. By utilizing our advanced miniaturization and three- dimensional stacking technologies, high-speed, high-capacity and low-power data storage can be realized in a variety of form factors, including ultra-compact ball grid array (BGA) packages. Mercury's military-grade TRRUST-Stor® BGA SSD device incorporates both security and ruggedization, thereby providing assured reliability in harsh military environments. These secure SSD devices are the ideal solution for data protection in SWaP-constrained embedded systems such as avionics, unmanned vehicles, mobile communication systems, wearable man-packs, laptops and tablets. Mercury Systems' TRRUST-Stor BGA is an example of successfully implementing the 5S's of secure data storage Speed Reliable data speed is vital to most military embedded computing applications. However, using a virtual private network (VPN) or other encryption applications, can slow computing functions. These use Innovation That's Embedded The 5S's of Secure Storage for Military Embedded Computing Systems SWaP SPEED SECURITY SANITIZE SELF- DESTRUCT MILITARY EMBEDDED SECURE STORAGE

• Cover