As organizations leverage network-based initiatives to improve productivity, minimize costs and expand market opportunities by providing their customers, partners, and employees access to their high-value and sensitive corporate data, they are increasingly faced with the challenge of comprehensively securing the access to their data whilst minimizing the associated costs and obstacles. Protection of corporate information assets and making it available only to the right people is vital for any organization to ensure a sustained competitive edge.

The Aware product provides built-in high level of security and control features for enterprise-wide deployment and scalability within and outside the organization to share information with partners, suppliers and customers. It features a robust, fine-grained security architecture with five levels of security (database, application, module, menu and module-operations), integrates with industry standard firewall configurations and has support for SSL encryption protocol and digital certificates for validation. For most customers, these levels of security are adequate to safely conduct their supply chain operations.

However, for many organizations, movement of proprietary or sensitive information across intranets and extranets demands a higher level of data protection. For these customers, Exactus can optionally provide NetSentry, an advanced AES 256 bit encryption module, fully compliant with FIPS 197 standard. It provides e-mail, file, folder, disk and data encryption with a very high level of protection for safeguarding information assets. The NetSentry suite of products from Exactus provides software as well as hardware based solutions to address information security requirements encompassing individual data protection at the workstation, departmental and enterprise level as well as remote access and site-to-site internet based VPN connections to ensure that your business communications and transactions are fully secured. These solutions have been tested to be fully compliant with information protection standard ISO/IEC 15408. Protection policy encompasses rules of information processing and information distribution. Protection is provided from actual threat of compromising information integrity and authenticity of information as well as from information confidentiality infringement. The system can monitor network traffic and security associations in real-time.

Supported protocols include SNMP V1/V2, SNMP MIB-II. Security standards compliance includes IPSec/IK, FIPS 197, ANSI X9.52 (Triple-DES), ANSI X9.42 (Diffie-Hellman key management), X9.62-1998 Public Key Cryptography for The Financial Services Industry: Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) and RSA. Encryption Algorithm support includes DES (Data Encryption Standard), DES3 (Triple-DES) and RIJNDAEL. Key Management and Distribution is accomplished through Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman public key exchange and RSA Crypto algorithm and Authentication is via X.509 v3 certificates, SHA-1, MD5 and DES-MAC.