TrustedCOTS Technology Protection

 

Trusted Computing for Embedded Processor Cards

The threats facing today’s defense and aerospace applications are more varied and sophisticated than ever. Embedded electronics require enhanced trusted computing protections to defend mission success from compromise from physical and remote attacks and hardware and software failures.

Curtiss-Wright builds trusted computing technologies and techniques into every aspect of security solution development, from design and testing to supply chain and manufacturing. This comprehensive, end-to-end approach creates an effective mesh of protection layers that integrate to ensure the reliability of Curtiss-Wright products in the face of attempted compromise. The Trusted Commercial-off-the-Shelf (TrustedCOTS™) and Enhanced TrustedCOTS portfolio of embedded security products and capabilities are aligned to provide flexibility, control, and options needed to build the right assurance level into any program.

 

Deploy Defense-Grade Security with Enhanced TrustedCOTS

TrustedCOTS and Enhanced TrustedCOTS leverage the commercial domain’s extensive secure state-of-the-art R&D investments, which Curtiss-Wright integrates into rugged, reliable, and reusable technology blocks. This modular open system approach (MOSA) to security uses no custom hardware, facilitating rapid and easy integration into host systems. Indeed, this approach is so adaptable it can be retrofitted to existing systems. Traditionally, defense-grade security solutions require custom hardware somewhere in the system to protect a user's application. This was an expensive and time-consuming effort that could cause significant program schedule delays. The Enhanced TrustedCOTS approach provides the necessary infrastructure on select processor modules to allow the hosting of IP from Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Idaho Scientific, StarLab, and Wind River.