Secure Messaging Solutions &

Company Overview

Presentation to

AFCEA Rome

Kieron Sambrook-Smith – Sales & Marketing Director

kieron.sambrook-smith@boldonjames.com

29th March 2007

What Do We Do

Boldon James provide a suite of High, Medium and Basic grade secure messaging

software based upon Microsoft Solutions. We deliver STANAG 4406 compliance at a

low cost, packaged for simple, rapid deployment promoting ease of management.

These Solutions deliver both X.400 and X.500 capability to Defence and Government

organisations around the world.

Military & Aviation Message Handling Systems• Defence, Intelligence, Military & Civil

Homeland Security• Government, Security & Intelligence services

Connectivity• Legacy connectivity software to all sectors

Consulting and Services• Penetration Testing, Security Consulting

• Software implementation and integration

Increasing functionality, offering the right interface for the user (in role) whilst

delivering a cost effective, secure, standards conformant solution.

Boldon James Approach

Basic GradeBG Users

need to see

Sec Label

High Grade

MG Users

need to read

HG Message

Properties

HG Users need

to read MG

Sec Label

Restric

ted

X ?

Inter-

OperabilityMedium

Grade

• Standard forms are created

• Server side enhancements

• Fire and Forget

• Time Sensitive Delivery

• Profiling

• Time Sensitive Delivery

• Label Reader

• Directory Look-up and Browser (MasterKey Plus)

• Draft, Review and Release Workflow

• Email enabling APIs

A formal Messaging Client

Formal Instant Messaging - Login

• Simple Log-On Screen

• Linked to Windows NT Logon

• All Clearances etc held in AD

• Zero desktop footprint

• Can only see rooms with approved access

• Simple select and click to join a room

• Locked rooms are not displayed

• Multiple rooms per server

Formal Instant Messaging – main screen

• Simple obvious interface

• Room Label is displayed

• Padlock to lock/unlock room

• List of participants

• Configurable persistent conversation

• ZULU DTG

• Invite a guest

• Label Changes and Flashes

• Guest cannot see persistence

• Guest cannot see participants

• Simplicity is key virtue

Company Overview

Boldon James are the leading provider of secure messaging solutions globally in the

Defence sector. We are taking advantage of strong demand growth around the world,

generated by organisations such as NATO, and from new communications needs to

suit the changing nature of warfare and counter terrorism. Homeland Security and

Intelligence are proving to have very similar requirements that match our solution set.

• Established 1985

• U.K. company, Maidenhead, Crewe, Sydney, Paris & Washington

• Owned by the management team and ISIS Equity Partners

• 85 staff

• $20m revenues in 2007

Who Are Our Customers

We have 178 customers and 1.5m High/Medium Grade clients deployed in

U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions, some of whom we are unable to

reference.

Referenceable Countries - Defence

• U.K., U.S., Germany, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Australia, NZ, Hungary

• Intelligence, MoD, Army, Navy & Air Force

Referenceable Organisations – Non Defence

• Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs

• Home Office

• Cabinet Office

• Department for Work & Pensions

• Offender Management (Prison Services)

• Many local government boroughs

• Northern Rock

• Queensland Police

• Hong Kong Treasury

• Great Eastern Life Assurance

Similarity of Requirements in Homeland Security

• What’s driving growth in requirements for secure messaging

– Growth in demand for secure messaging due to changing nature of warfare.

– Massive increase in demand for inter-agency information sharing due to:

• Terrorism, Border control, Justice & Public safety

• Requirements for secure information exchange growing massively

• Low cost infrastructure already there – Email – so lets use it….

…..as long as we can ensure security and reliability:

– Authentication, identification & non-repudiation

– Security: data validation, labelling, signatures

– Encrypt attachments or send links to secure repositories

– Automation: ‘Fire & Forget’ and application integration

– Enforcing virtual boundaries (gateways)

Sharing Information Between Agencies

• Anti-terrorism Information Initiative (Intelligence Services)

- Secure exchange of intelligence information between agencies

- Central government Home/Foreign Office, Police, Criminal Justice, Intelligence Services

- SQL, Exchange, Biztalk

‘Central Hosting’

organisation

Military Intelligence

Ministry D’InterieurSecret Service

Foreign Affairs

Police

Duane

MTA

MTAMTA

WTS / Citrix

Hosted

system

PolicePoliceInterpol

MS ExchangeMTA

WTS

SAFEmail

MS Outlook

RDBMS

Link/secret_document_police

Police

London

Interest Group:

Terrorism

Email addresses:

Superintendant@Paris

DC@London

GSN Functionality:

Alert group

OOO

Role based

Guaranteed delivery

Sharing Information Between Agencies

• U.K. Anti-terrorism Information Initiative (Intelligence Services)

- Secure exchange of intelligence information between agencies

- Central government Home/Foreign Office, Police, Criminal Justice, Intelligence Services

- SQL, Exchange, Biztalk

Police

Paris

AlertAlert

Company Pedigree

• Established 1985, 1st Microsoft product 1988 (18 years)

• 1st formal messaging customer (UK Automobile Association) 1990

• 1st defence messaging user (Belgiam Armed Forces/Siemens) 1993

• Primary Microsoft partner on US Defense Messaging System 1996

• OEM embedded LDAP tools in Microsoft Outlook (100m users) 1997

• 1st STANAG 4406 system deployed in Greece 2003

• 1st ACP145 prototype development for CCEB committees 2004

• 1st STANAG 4406 system deployment in Germany (Nukom) 2004

• 1st ACP123 system deployment in New Zealand (Fujitsu) 2005

• 1st Outlook Web Access (OWA) ACP120 implementation 2005

• 1st deployed ACP145 project UK MoD 2006

• 1st pan-UK-MoD defence messaging solution (DII) 2006

• 1st Microsoft LCS defence grade CHAT solution (SIM) 2006

Microsoft Relationship

We have been partnering with Microsoft for 14 years.

• Exclusive Global ‘Go To Market’ Partner for Defence Messaging

• Relationships at Global, Defence and Country levels that ‘get things done’

• Part of major Homeland Security initiative

• Development level relationships direct to Redmond, U.S.

• MS LDAP Address book extensions (200m + users)

• MS Exchange X.400 support

• Visibility of products and releases 6-12 months in advance

• Advantage to Support function

• Ability to influence direction eg. X.400 in Exchange 2007

• Microsoft Gold Partner

Typical Boldon James MMHS Solution

Defense Messaging System

High GradeProfiling

Time Sensitive Delivery

Fire and Forget

Military Properties (Precedence, SICs, PLAD Etc.)

Mailguards

Firewalls

Gateways

Medium GradeAbility to Create and Display S/Mime ESS Labels

Clearance and capability check before sending

Signature and optional encryption

Ability to view High Grade Messages

Management of READ and DELIVERY reports

Basic GradeStandard Microsoft Exchange Outlook

Ability to Display S/Mime ESS Security Labels

MMHS Solution Set

• SAFEmail.mil / ATS Client

• SAFEmail.net

• SAFE Instant Messaging

• MS Exchange Extensions

• Gateways (ACP145, AFTN, MFG)

• Guards

• Profiling & Archiving

• SAFEAgent (Exchange to XML/BizTalk Adaptor)

• Annex E Gateway

• SAFEmail Accelerator

Services

• Consultancy Services

– Architecture Design

– Product Implementation, Configuration and Integration

• Security Services

– Penetration Testing (CHECK listed)

– CLAS consultancy

– BS7799 Compliance Services

– BS7799 Risk Assessments

– Business Continuity Planning

– Security Training and Awareness

– Web application Security Assessments

– Security Policy Definition & Training

• Bespoke Development

– Outlook / Client Extensions

– Exchange Server Extensions

– Gateway Technology

– Windows/Unix

Questions?

Case Study – German Bundeswehr (NuKom)

NuKomBW Military Message

Handling System

Defence Messaging Systems of the Future

Boldon James is committed to looking at the market and to ensuring the Defence, Intelligence and Government markets have the right products at the right time and in a cost effective format. Areas we are researching include:

• Annex E support for radios without IP

• STANAG 4406, Annex E, TMI-4• User Agent to User Agent

• Multi-functioning Gateways

• High Assurance, Protocol Conversion, Interoperability in a single appliance

• Integration of Boldon James Defence and Microsoft Collaborative Tools

• Secure Chat

• Directory Guards

• ACP133 Enabled Active Directory

Areas we already have products released or due for release in 2007:

• X.400 Support in Exchange 2007

• Secure Chat

Questions?