Application development and deployment within a secured environment presents several challenges for both the developer and the end-user. Often, the need arises for a tool or application to address the time-critical needs of the intelligence analyst. In order to deploy a new application on secured networks, a rigorous Information Assurance is required to maintain the integrity of the system. Depending on the size and complexity of the application, this can result in significant additional cost as well as a delay of several months before the application can be deployed and used.

The Secure Container Framework (SCF) addresses this challenge by providing a protected, secured infrastructure in a distributed cloud environment that facilitates the rapid deployment of new applications without sacrificing security. The SCF allows rapid deployment of unaccredited applications and their subsequent operation on classified networks. By virtue of executing unaccredited applications within this framework, the SCF enforces the required security policies on these untrusted, unaccredited applications. This allows new applications to be deployed on secure networks within weeks, rather than the months it now takes, without sacrificing security.

The SCF provides the security enforcement through automated static code analysis as well as runtime monitoring of application behavior and communications. In other words, applications can “inherit” their accreditation by executing within the SCF, thus significantly shortening the “time to market” for new applications. The SCF provides a comprehensive application framework, which includes the front-end (client) and back-end (application server) processing.

The power of our technology is to aid you in discovering exactly what you were looking for without you having to know exactly how to find it. The novelty of our technology is its ability to learn from the data in a way that summarizes and visualizes knowledge in ways that analysts and decision makers can utilize to drive action. When combined with the Secure Container, Digital Reasoning has a uniquely viable solution for making sense of large scales of data on highly sensitive and secured networks.

In summary, the primary benefits provided by the SCF are:

• an environment designed to run unaccredited applications in a trusted grid
• the ability to automatically dictate and manage security policies, as well as define and manage security execution boundaries
• the provisioning of secure communications between accredited and unaccredited applications