TriCIS & Booz Allen Hamilton Partnership

TriCIS are excited to announce their partnership with Booz Allen Hamilton and the District Defend team for DSEI 2019. We would like to invite you to visit Stand: S9-272 at DSEI 2019 to meet our team and discuss a new secure mobility solution. Together and with Dell, the TriCIS and District Defend leadership team will be onsite to answer any questions, in addition to performing on demand demos. A brief overview of District Defend is provided below, and we look forward to seeing you in person at DSEI next week!

The Team consist of:

• Antony Summerfield – CEO, TriCIS Ltd
• Beau Oliver - Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Jason Myers – Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Dean Niedosik - Lead Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Jeff Van Horn – Senior Sales Engineer, DELL EMC

Booz Allen’s District Defend™ product offers a unique mobile device management software that extends security into the operating system’s core processes and firmware. This solution provides additional security features beyond encryption, allowing the government to architect and configure a robust mobile defense without compromising performance or the user experience. This solution allows for the use of commercially available devices, while supporting multi-mode device usage, to include: power controls, hardware enablement/disablement, multiple Operating Systems, restricted networks, data wipes, and other security elements to automate enforcement of organizational security policies. Booz Allen possesses multiple U.S. patents related to this technology and has exclusive rights for the dynamic control of Dell’s hardware and firmware controls. Booz Allen’s proprietary software provides the following capabilities:

Delivers Firmware-Level Hardware Management

• Many organizations have strict security stances on what device hardware components can be enabled in restricted areas – some going so far as physically removing components. By disabling at the firmware/UEFI level, organizations gain those same benefits of physically removing components, while avoiding exorbitant prices for costly removals. Also they will not need to purchase all new devices if trends change on a component.
• District Defend can update UEFI configurations in the pre-boot environment, ensuring all vulnerable components are disabled before sensitive data is loaded.

Provides Power Control and Data-at-Rest Encryption Enforcement

• District ensures that organizations can automatically power off devices when they are removed from controlled spaces – clearing sensitive data from memory and enforcing data-at-rest encryption. Additionally, District can keep that device in a locked, powered-off state until it reenters a controlled space – this further protects against attempts to exploit the boot process.

Utilizes Anti-Tampering Mechanisms

• District Defend leverages the Dell SecureBoot process to validate that the boot process has not been tampered with or modified.
• District Defend also features a watchdog component that continuously communicates with a “Deadman Switch” in the devices power control module – any attempts to remove District Defend software will result in the device shutting itself down.

Facilitates Long-Term Data Protection

• District provides organizations the option to permanently safeguard their information if a device remains outside of controlled spaces for too long. Organizations can define a time-based trigger point for how long devices can remain outside of controlled spaces, after which, devices that are powered on will result in District software dumping the disk encryption keys from the TPM and initiating a pre-boot, full disk data wipe.