The Solution
The Fox DataDiode offers security and data integrity, enhanced through the use of event logging, and error detection and correction. It also boasts an easy transfer procedure and user-friendly interface. Furthermore, users of the receiving network are able to receive e-mail from outside their network, print locally or access frequently used websites or databases, all without exposing their high-security network to outside risks or threats.
Features and benefits
In a nutshell, the Fox DataDiode offers the following features and benefits:
- Unique hardware-based, one-way data link.
- Error detection and correction for data integrity.
- Time synchonisation for the high-security network.
- Event logging and SNMP traps on both sides of the data transfer.
- Easy to use web interface for users, administrators and auditors.
- Approved by the NL-NCSA, BSI, Common Criteria EAL 7+, and up to and incl. NATO SECRET.
- No need for time-consuming, risky and expensive manual transportation of data e.g. USB-stick.
To place things in perspective, it is useful to review the current alternative: the manual air-gap data transfer procedure. In addition to the effort, time and cost involved, this form of data transfer also introduces security risks through possible loss of portable storage media, or their incorrect disposal. Moreover, this type of transfer is neither continuous, nor is it conducted online nor in real-time.
Fox DataDiode solution
The Fox DataDiode basic solution consists of three elements:
- Hardware Data Diode
- Data Diode proxy Servers
- Data Diode Software
The basic solution can be augmented with additional application servers to add specific functionality to one-way transfer.
