Defence establishments are the world are a target to attacks and malicious surveillance all the time. In India a few years ago, there was even a physical attack where terrorists entered the compound, attacked the security force and tried to destroy aircrafts and other defence infrastructure. Many such attacks happen around the world.
The attacks are becoming more frequent in India and parts of Europe with actual attacks or attempts being foiled regularly.
The customer approach
After one such attack, the Indian government decided to implement perimeter security around a critical defence establishment. They used a network of Cisco Industrial switches, L3 routers and firewalls to power cameras and stream video content from the walls of the establishment to the server across the cloud. This was setup with an expense of US$ 500,000. The network diagram is as follows –
Unfortunately after the network was setup 2 years ago. there were such regular attacks on it from malicious agencies that less than 20% of the data reached the server on the cloud.
Customer requirement
The customer aimed to find a way to rid the network of DDOS (denial of service) attacks, such that data could flow smoothly, in real-time from the cameras on the defence facility’s walls to the server, without breaks, that rendered the perimeter security useless.
The Solution
The customer decided to use Pantherun’s path breaking encryption with its advanced DDOS filters, with its unique hardware to retrofit on top of the Cisco network. Following is the diagram to show how the setup was made.
Cisco’s IPSec encryption was stopped and data was allowed to flow from the Cisco network into the Pantherun switch, with the unique zero format change implementation of AES 256 bit cryptography. Thus encrypted data was then allowed to flow through the cloud to the customer’s servers in the command centre.
Pantherun’s encryption approach was able to eliminate the weaknesses of the Cisco IPSec encryption approach, thus allowing data to start flowing smoothly to the servers. This easy retrofit saved over US$ 500,000 spent by the customer just two years ago.
