archTIS Limited (ASX:AR9, OTCQB:ARHLF) has been awarded a contract worth A$217,000 by a NASDAQ-listed, U.S.-headquartered satellite communications and defence technology company, referred to in the announcement as the “Customer”. The contract term is 12 months and is subject to standard terms and conditions.
archTIS said the Customer selected its offering following a competitive evaluation against established data security vendors. The company described the award as a new U.S. Defence Industrial Base customer.
archTIS wins A$217,000 U.S. satellite and defence contract
The award splits into two parts: software licences and services.
- A$115,000 for Spirion Sensitive Data Manager (SDM) and archTIS Trusted Data Integration (TDI) software licenses
- A$102,000 for support and customer development services
Daniel Lai, Managing Director and CEO, said the win shows the company’s products working together on a hard security problem.
Daniel Lai, Managing Director and CEO
“…This win demonstrates our solutions working together to solve complex security challenges across sensitive systems that other solutions cannot…”
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The cross-domain problem the Customer needed solved
The Customer hosts sensitive government data within an air-gapped network comprising both Linux and Windows systems. An air-gapped network is one that is physically isolated from other networks, including the internet. “Cross-domain” refers to moving data between separate environments of this kind.
Before granting third-party partners access, the Customer needed to accurately discover and classify the data and keep classification labels attached as files moved cross-domain. Previously, the classifications were lost on transfer.
The Customer selected the Spirion SDM and TDI products to address this. The two work in sequence:
- Spirion SDM identifies and classifies each document or file inside the air-gapped environment, including non-standard file types and custom data types.
- TDI then makes those classification labels persistent, keeping them attached as files move between the cross-domain environment.
The persistent-label capability was one the Customer did not find in other tools it evaluated. archTIS said this validates its combined Spirion and TDI capability to discover, classify and persistently label sensitive government data in air-gapped, cross-domain environments.
Why the win matters for archTIS’s U.S. push
The opportunity originated through archTIS’ engagement with the U.S. Defense Industrial Base community. The company said it demonstrates the relevance of the combined Spirion and TDI offering to defence contractors protecting controlled government data.
Mr Lai said defence contractors need to share sensitive government data with partners across systems while maintaining strict control. In his view, pairing Spirion SDM’s discovery and classification with TDI’s policy enforcement capabilities addresses a common cross-domain challenge for defense contractors “that will drive repeatable opportunities.”
Mr Lai also placed the contract in the context of recent U.S. activity:
Daniel Lai, Managing Director and CEO
“This is our third U.S. commercial win in a matter of weeks, following aviation and financial services contracts, and the NC Protect work we are delivering for the U.S. Department of Defense…”
archTIS describes itself as a global provider of data-centric security solutions for the secure collaboration of sensitive information. Its product suite includes:
- Trusted Data Integration
- Kojensi
- NC Protect
- Spirion
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