Archon Secure’s Safe Traveler Program Launches with GoSilent Cube

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Solving the Need for Better Remote Work Security for Federal Agencies and Enterprise Organizations

Archon Secure’s Safe Traveler Program is designed to bring federal agencies and enterprise organizations the most effective security solutions for remote workers. The program aims to protect sensitive intellectual property, data, and employee and customer personally identifiable information (PII) to the highest levels, no matter where employees are located. The GoSilent Cube represents the first functional example of realizing that goal.

The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the importance of remote work capability. Throughout the world, governments, organizations, and institutions were faced with the suddenly very real possibility of having to slow down or even stop work due to their employees’ inability to work remotely successfully.

And perhaps nowhere more was this felt more strongly than in the US government and certain enterprise companies, where government agencies and those in industries such as government, healthcare and banking must adhere to some of the most stringent of remote work requirements due to the sensitive data they work with daily. Before COVID, the general strategy for securing devices relied solely on measures requiring devices to be brought on-premise for updates and maintenance, with no way to quickly and effectively outfit additional workers at scale. Upon sending their employees home, many agencies and organizations quickly discovered unpreparedness for the security implications of their workforces going remote.

However, a necessary re-evaluation of the methods for achieving remote work has already begun to generate real-world solutions that represent long-lasting and systemic changes to how government agencies and enterprise organizations approach remote work.

Enter the GoSilent Cube

To meet these challenges, Archon Secure has launched the Safe Traveler Program featuring the GoSilent Cube, the smallest, lightest, and most cost-effective hardware (SWaP-C) encryptor for secure communications. Utilizing the GoSilent Cube’s secure connection allows users, devices, and data communication kits to take advantage of a true, end-to-end, encrypted link between remote devices and enterprise or tactical servers worldwide.

The GoSilent Cube is a simple, easy-to-deploy, secure network access point that fits in the palm of your hand and connects to any IP-enabled device. A portable hardware VPN and firewall, capable of securing numerous devices at once, the Cube protects networks, endpoints, and applications from malicious cyber activity while obfuscating the user’s identity and location wherever they access the internet.

And unlike existing security solutions, GoSilent is flexible and can be deployed in the cloud, on-premises, or as a managed service. Offering greater agility and reliability than traditional connections, the Cube offers a secure connection across satellite, fixed, or wireless networks with NIAP and CSfC-approved security.

If you’re looking to create a true, end-to-end, encrypted link between your end-user devices or communications kits to your enterprise or tactical server from anywhere around the world, on any network, the GoSilent Cube is your solution.

Key Features

Designed for Ease of Use

First and foremost, the GoSilent Cube was designed to be an out-of-the-box solution. Easy to use and extremely versatile, the Cube’s hardware VPN can be set up in minutes with simple plug-and-play functionality. Employees should be able to self-provision their cubes in minutes, on their own, without the need to install or configure any software, within the comfort of their homes. With no technical administrator required to set or configure the device, the Cube eliminates the need for centralized IT support for configuration and activation.

The GoSilent Cube is compatible with any IP-enabled device and effective over any untrusted connection, allowing you to secure any IP-enabled device with no software or applications to download to an end-user device or system. Completely network, platform, and operating system agnostic, the Cube’s advanced capabilities enable enhanced connectivity over any connection, including public internet (hotel, airport, home network), LTE, satellite, and radio.

Meanwhile, the Cube’s design ensures nearly unlimited mobility and ease of transport. Weighing in at just 3oz with dimensions of 2.6” x 1.9” x 1.2”, it fits easily in the palm of your hand. As mentioned, the Cube is the lowest size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) COTS hardware encryptor, offering up to 90Mbps throughput.

Enhanced Security

As a unifying security solution, GoSilent offers hardened security that eliminates man-in-the-middle attacks, unauthorized eavesdropping, and intellectual property theft while expanding the ability of an organization to leverage virtually any network securely, efficiently, and cost-effectively.

Captive Portal Isolation

Captive portals are often riddled with vulnerabilities. But the GoSilent Cube can protect your PC from network hacking, identity theft, malware, and cookies through captive portal isolation, making even the least secure connections incredibly secure. The GoSilent Cube is the only solution that isolates captive portals.

Once connected to a network, the Cube establishes a VPN tunnel, providing captive portal isolation and ensuring that it can not be downloaded to or compromised on your end-user device. This separation of IP-enabled devices from malicious Wi-Fi malware downloads and exploits represents a fundamentally important functionality for any device using public or untrusted network connections.

Hardware VPN

Generally speaking, hardware-based VPNs provide better security than their software counterparts, are easier to use, and require less maintenance. Making them an ideal fit for employees working remotely.

Benefits of using a hardware VPN include:

• No software or application is required for end-user devices.
• Less reliance on centralized IT support, maintenance, and management.
• No software compatibility concerns.
• Firewalling, isolation and obfuscation.
• Smaller attack surface.
• Lower risk of VPN hijacking.
• Greater control over where traffic is sent.
• Connect up to 5 devices wirelessly.
• Reduces the risk of misconfigurations and user error.

For more detailed information on the differences between hardware and software VPNs, check out our blog, Hardware VPN vs. Software VPN.

The Cube’s use of a hardware VPN ensures that end-user devices never actually touch the networks they connect to. The GoSilent Cube was built to act as a firewall between the device it’s connected to and the outside world. No other devices on the same network as that end-user device can even see that the device itself even exists, making the end-user device virtually impossible to target for attack.

The GoSilent Cube’s hardware VPN can be set up in minutes with simple functionality. No technical administrator is required to set or configure the device. At the same time, the VPN’s firewall is preset to block all inbound traffic and allow only device-established connections.

GoSilent Cube VPN Specs:

• VPN Type: IPSec (CNSA Suite B)
• VPN Mode: Tunnel
• VPN IKE Version: IKEv1 with PSK’s. IKEv2 with Certs
• VPN Cipher: Top Secret DH20

IP Obfuscation

The Cube’s use of dual IP obfuscation through different ingress and egress IP addresses renders network traffic invisible while hiding user identity and location through the GoSilent Global solution. And the GoSilent global secure VPN server network’s deployment on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud with 12 points of presence (PoPs) provides multiple options for obfuscation while optimizing performance.

Secure Multiple Devices at Once

Create a cost-effective solution to secure many active devices simultaneously with Cube’s advanced capabilities. A single GoSilent Cube can securely connect between 5 and 30 devices simultaneously.

When wired via Ethernet, the Cube can connect 30 concurrent end-user devices at up to 90 Mbps throughput.

When wired via Wi-Fi USB, the Cube can connect 5 concurrent end-user devices at up to 30 Mbps throughput.

Security Certifications, Compliances, and Approvals

The GoSilent Cube is secured using the most advanced methods and built to adhere to National Security System (NSS) standards.

CSfC Certified

The Cube represents a CSfC-certified, plug-and-play security solution for classified and unclassified communication using the public internet. GoSilent is NIAP, and CSfC certified for Top Secret/SCI and below within a CSfC architecture, including IPSec VPN Gateway.

What is CSfC? 

NIAP Certified

The government approves the Cube in National Security Systems to handle classified data for the DoD, Intelligence Community, and any DoD contractors or affiliates.

FIPS Compliant

The Cube is approved for use by the federal government departments that collect, store, transfer, share, and disseminate sensitive but unclassified (SBU) information.

CNSA Encryption

The Cube is built with Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite (CSNA) level cryptography, the most secure encryption solution in the marketplace.

Use in Enterprise and Commercial Sectors

Cybersecurity is certainly not limited to the government sector, as breaches continue to grow in frequency and sophistication in all industries. While the financial industry remains the primary target for attacks, other sectors such as education, IT, and retail have also been victims of significant and devastating breaches.

Both Target and Home Depot experienced security breaches considered to be among the largest and most financially damaging in history. Over 56 million users’ credit and debit card details were stolen in the Home Depot breach, while over 110 million in-store customers were compromised in the Target breach.

And while breaches in the education sector might not get the publicity of those in the financial services industry, it still represents a lucrative area for cybercriminals due to its wealth of student personally identifiable information (PII). Many educational institutions also hold valuable information relating to research, tech innovations, and IP.

Meanwhile, the complexity brought on by rapidly changing and expanding third-party ecosystems and rising competitive threats from corporate entities and nation-states has made it increasingly difficult for organizations to quickly, easily, and securely share information with their partners and suppliers.

The GoSilent Cube’s ability to function as an enterprise-grade firewall/VPN enables it to lockdown access to networks and protect valuable data, detecting and preventing cyberattacks from a wide spectrum of sources and helping keep institutions and organizations secure. The Cube can lock down access to the networks of banking institutions by securing all endpoints, like servers, mobile devices, printers/scanners, laptops, and desktops, and providing a secure IPSec tunnel with CSNA suite.

It represents an Ideal solution for organizations that want a true, end-to-end, encrypted link between their employees and their corporate network behind their firewall and require zero-touch security from wherever their users are located. Allowing employees to securely access corporate resources without being exposed to attack over an open Wi-Fi or internet connection. Designed to be fully controlled and managed by the organization, the organization owns all data and controls access and segmentation without the use of third-party providers.

Because GoSilent Share is plug-and-play, as well as platform-agnostic, it is ideally suited for creating secure communication, collaboration, and file-sharing capabilities within complex supply chains or partner networks.

Conclusion.

While the pandemic may have taught us that we needed greater capacity and secure ability to work remotely, a reliably secure remote work environment has been growing increasingly necessary for government agencies, as well as those in the commercial sector, even outside of a pandemic scenario.

This is why the GoSilent Cube’s ability to easily protect IP-enabled devices and data without business disruption is incredibly valuable today. And will only grow more essential in the future.

The GoSilent Cube delivers government-grade, Top Secret level security out of the box, with no configuration necessary, and when utilized, will prove itself invaluable to any agency, organization, or business almost immediately.