The defense industry faces unparalleled challenges in safeguarding trade-controlled technical data, including information, blueprints, designs, or software related to goods or technology, restricted by export control laws such as Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFARs), the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and Export Administration Regulations (EAR).
These regulations demand robust mechanisms to ensure trade-controlled technical data is securely managed, shared, and protected throughout its lifecycle. Accurate classification and labeling are critical to achieving compliance and maintaining operational integrity, particularly as the risk of intellectual property (IP) theft by adversarial nation-states continues to escalate.
Safeguard Defense Data: A Data-Centric Approach to Ensure Compliance, Protect Supply Chains, and Improve Zero Trust
Trade-controlled technical data is a cornerstone of defense operations but comes with significant compliance and security obligations. Mismanagement of such data can result in unauthorized disclosures, regulatory violations, and threats to national security. Foreign actors and malicious insiders actively target defense supply chains and contractors to exfiltrate sensitive intellectual property, jeopardizing technological advantages and operational capabilities. To counter this, defense organizations must adopt a comprehensive, data-centric approach that combines classification, labeling, and zero-trust security strategies.
Key Benefits of Data Classification for the Defense Industry:
- Compliance with export control regulations. Accurate classification ensures data is marked according to jurisdiction-specific regulations like ITAR and EAR, enabling compliance with strict dissemination and export controls.
- Enhanced access controls and data loss prevention (DLP). Persistent, tamper-proof labels embedded in technical data provide the necessary metadata for robust attribute-based access controls (ABAC) and DLP systems to enforce policies and prevent accidental or unauthorized sharing.
- Protection against state-sponsored threats: Visibly classified and metadata-tagged information reduces the likelihood of espionage-driven IP theft, making it easier to detect and prevent unauthorized access attempts by adversarial entities.
- Streamlined collaboration across the supply chain. Metadata-rich classification ensures visibility and control across internal systems and external networks, facilitating secure collaboration with partners and suppliers while mitigating insider risks.
Zero Trust for Defense: Continuous Protection of Trade-Controlled Technical Data
A zero-trust approach to data security is essential for defense organizations managing trade-controlled technical data. This strategy operates on the principle of "never trust, always verify," ensuring that only authorized individuals or systems can access sensitive information. Given the increasing sophistication of cyber-enabled espionage efforts by foreign adversaries, zero trust ensures that even if networks are breached, sensitive technical data remains protected through continuous authentication and policy enforcement.
Janusnet: Simplify Compliance and Strengthening Security for Trade-Controlled Technical Data
Janusnet provides defense organizations with fast, easy-to-use solutions that reduce the compliance burden by simplifying the classification and labeling of trade-controlled technical data. Persistent labels and metadata enforce policies across systems, ensuring consistent compliance and traceability. Key benefits include:
- Reducing complexity for operators by making the process of applying compliant labels for ITAR, EAR, or other jurisdiction-specific standards easy and quick.
- Improving secure management of trade-controlled technical data from creation to disposal with integrations into enterprise document and records management systems, email platforms, and edge gateways.
- Reducing audit costs by maintaining clear, traceable labeling that simplifies audits and demonstrates compliance with regulatory requirements.
Enable Secure Collaboration of Trade-Controlled Technical Data Across Defense Supply Chains
The defense industry’s reliance on collaborative supply chains increases the complexity of managing trade-controlled technical data. Adversarial threats exploit vulnerabilities in supply chain security, using cyber intrusions and insider recruitment to obtain sensitive defense technologies. Janusnet’s solutions ensure that sensitive data remains protected, even as it traverses multiple systems and organizations. Persistent metadata and labels provide the foundation for secure interoperability, enabling seamless collaboration while preventing unauthorized disclosures.
Protect What Matters Most: Partner with Janusnet to Secure Trade-Controlled Technical Data and Strengthen National Security
In an industry where data security is a national security issue, the ability to reliably and accurately classify and label trade-controlled technical data is a necessity, not an option. With state-sponsored espionage and IP theft posing an ever-growing risk, defense organizations must proactively protect their most valuable assets. By adopting Janusnet’s advanced solutions, defense organizations can safeguard sensitive information, meet compliance requirements, and confidently build a zero-trust security ecosystem.
