Security Designed for the Most Sensitive Information Exchanges

Government organizations, both civilian and military, are under increasing pressure to reduce costs while at the same time improving network protection and the availability of online information and services for businesses, constituents, and other agencies. However, standard commercial email and the public Internet do not meet the high levels of government information security and network protection requirements mandated by government regulations such as the Department of Defense Directive 8500.1 (DoD 8500.1), the recently enacted Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Tumbleweed offers a suite of government information security and network protection products that provide the encryption, authentication, policy enforcement, and tracking capabilities that military, Federal, and local and state government agencies need to establish a secure online communications channel.

Tumbleweed Solutions for Government

Tumbleweed Validation Authority™—PKI Infrastructure and Identity Validation

The U.S. Federal government, the DoD, and local and state governments around the country are committed to ensuring the utmost security and trust for their critical IT systems. As part of a comprehensive strategy, many agencies deploy Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) to provide network protection and secure communication capabilities for everything from network access for employees to multi-million dollar electronic transactions with banks, suppliers, and third-party processors. 

PKIs use virtual IDs, or digital certificates, issued by independent Certificate Authorities (CA) to validate the identity of organizations, computers, and individuals before allowing a transaction or communication to occur. However, the integrity of a PKI system is only as good as the reliability of the validation system, since digital certificates can be revoked, suspended, or expired at any given time.

Tumbleweed Validation Authority delivers a comprehensive, scalable, and reliable framework for validating digital certificates issued by any CA in real time, in turn ensuring the validity and integrity of highly valued and trusted transactions. Validation Authority utilizes multiple validation protocols for checking the validity of X509V3 digital certificates within PKI environments.

In addition to the Validation Authority, Tumbleweed also offers a suite of plug-in applications to simplify certificate validation processing at the application level. Server Validator (SV) is a plug-in for the most widely used Secure Web Servers on multiple OS platforms. Desktop Validator (DV) is a Microsoft OS based plug-in that provides highly flexible validation options for Microsoft Windows based applications.

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Tumbleweed MailGate™— Email Security, Content Filtering and Data Leakage Prevention

The MailGate family of products provides government information security through network protection, email compliance, and secure messaging services in form factors optimized for use by government organizations. By safeguarding your agency's networks and data at the Internet gateway, MailGate products reduce administrative headaches, total cost of ownership (TCO), and the liabilities associated with unprotected and uncontrolled e-mail communication, such as HIPAA violations. In addition, MailGate Email Firewall provides the digital signature enforcement capabilities required to comply with DoD 8500.1 and HSPD-12. MailGate products adds these multiple layers of protection to existing email networks—without requiring changes to enterprise systems, applications, protocols, or end-user procedures.

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Tumbleweed SecureTransport™— Secure File Exchange and Transactions

SecureTransport is an enterprise-class file-transfer solution that enables government organizations to use public networks for secure Web-based services and inter-agency connectivity. State Treasurer Offices, Departments of Retirement Systems, Labor and Industries, Motor Vehicles, and Health and Social Services use SecureTransport to serve other agencies and the public in compliance with HIPAA and other government regulations.

With support for a broad set of standard file-transfer protocols, SecureTransport allows agencies to leverage the Internet and private IP networks for automated and interactive transfer of large files, Internet EDI, protected health information, and financial transactions—improving efficiency and lowering costs through high-value online services for the public and private sectors.

Data is secured in transit, in the DMZ, and on the server regardless of the underlying transport network. All user connections are strongly authenticated and data integrity and guaranteed delivery are assured—whether the user makes infrequent transfers via a Web browser or uses client automation for batch and scheduled transfers.

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508 Compliance

Tumbleweed software is compatible with screen reading software for visually impaired and software/products for hearing impaired that make it 508 compliant. Tumbleweed products work with 508 compliant products such as JAWS, Window-Eyes and many more to make the Tumbleweed products compatible for people with disabilities.
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