SBIR-STTR Award

Xage provides multinode cybersecurity for real-world operations that covers devices, data, applications, control systems and people, with support for in-field and field-to-center control. The solutions leverages both Blockchain and Shamir's Secrets to tamperproof and maintain confidentiality from end to end. Use of these multi-node consensus-based mechanisms ensures that system integrity and continuous operation are maintained even if the network is penetrated, wide area network connectivity is disrupted and/or a minority of nodes is compromised. In other words, there is "no single point to hack" and operations are uninterrupted even if connectivity is lost. Services provided by the product include managed identity and role-based access control for both new and legacy systems; managed data sharing with strict confidentiality; device life cycle management; automated security policy enforcement and breach-attempt detection. In phase 1, Xage will investigate with Air Force personnel the applicability across areas including Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) and C3I&&N (66th Air Base Group-Hanscom AFB); C3I-HNI (Infrastructure Division), Common Computing Environment, and Crypto & Cyber System Division (HNCY-Cyber); COMSEC, HNA (Aerial Networks, AN & Comms); Advanced Aircraft; and MC AFSPC (Ground and Communication Modernization).

Xage delivers comprehensive, tamper-proof, software solutions for cybersecurity services across industrial operations encompassing people, devices, applications and data. Xage solutions include secure local and remote role and rule based access enforcement, zero-touch device enrollment, asset-tracking and revocation. Tamperproof fingerprinting, authentication and identity for data, applications, machines and people.that protect all equipment, delivering identity management, single sign-on, and access control with in-field enforcement across the operation spanning remote assets in the field (the ‘edge’) to operational centers, and in between. The Xage Fabric is a central policy and management platform with decentralized in-field security service and enforcement that ensures real-time security even if the field assets and the center are disconnected. Single point of failure is avoided through distributed ledger (blockchain) and consensus algorithms. The solution is universally applicable for both new and legacy devices regardless of the network type, application protocol or hardware vendor. The fabric provides full fidelity logging, alerting and auditing of all interactions, rogue action and credential isolation is self-healing and non-intrusive. Specifically, AFSPC believes Xage software solutions can deliver a higher level of security services across today’s heterogenous space assets, their communication, networks using next generation authentication techni