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'Nuclear deterrence information must not go to the wrong network': Airbus secures 25-year contract to prevent French army secrets from leaking

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Airbus has secured a 25-year contract with the French forces to provide secure "gateways" for controlling data exchanges and preventing leaks of classified information.

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Fighter jets, drones, armored vehicles: the slightest piece of military equipment now carries a quantity of digital data, more or less sensitive. To prevent a defense secret from ending up on an unprotected network, Airbus will provide the French forces with "gateways" to control data exchanges. These "gateways" must notably prevent classified information from circulating to a less protected network, while allowing certain exchanges essential for the forces' operations. The 25-year contract, the amount of which has not been disclosed, covers the design of prototypes, their production, and their maintenance in operational conditions. "The army needs this gateway to be able to both protect its systems containing secret information and allow, under very controlled conditions, data to be exchanged between secret-level networks and less-secret-level networks," explains Nicolas Razy, director of cybersecurity activities at Airbus France. The networks of the Ministry of Armed Forces are compartmentalized according to the sensitivity of the information they contain. But some data must pass from one to another. The gateway must then verify that the information transmitted to a less confidential network is no longer secret. This verification can be automated, but a human operator still often intervenes. The gateways also record exchanges to be able to trace operations retrospectively...

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