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Tech Brief: Secure Military Grade Solid State Drives Overview

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TECH BRIEF www.mrcy.com • Military packaging • Built-in encryption and multiple key management modes • No backdoors • Military Grade data purging and sanitization • A family of trusted tools • SSD building blocks • Data preservation • Trusted supply chain and longer lives • Military Grade SSD options Introduction This document introduces the considerations for selecting Solid- State Drives (SSDs) for mission-critical, high-reliability and high- security applications. This overview augments Mercury's white paper, Safeguarding Mission Critical Data with Secure Storage Solutions which offers a more detailed study of the consequences associated with selecting a commercial or enterprise-grade SSD for military or aerospace applications. Mercury has leading expertise in the rugged, secure storage domain, leveraging twenty years of industry experience designing and building defense grade storage devices. Our proven solutions are found in manned, unmanned, military and commercial mission and data recording applications that require robust built-in security, data protection and purge capabilities. Our most rugged and secure drives form our Military Grade portfolio of SSDs. Secure Military Grade Solid State Drives Overview 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. Figure 1. Secure Military Grade SSD rugged packaging Military packaging Consumer and enterprise data storage is transitioning from rotary, magnetic media to SSDs comprised of dense, rugged NAND flash memory. With no moving parts, NAND flash-based drives are a requirement for all military and aerospace mission-critical applications. Today, military needs are driving data storage requirements far beyond deployable ruggedness in to the domains of robust data security, purging and sanitization. Figure 2. Secure Military Grade SSD rugged interconnects

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