Design and development of the sovereign communications package follows a comprehensive secure system engineering methodology that integrates security and cyber resiliency principles throughout. Secure and resilient systems emerge from the orchestration of components and subsystems across multiple domains. Particular attention must be paid to the boundary conditions and interactions between layers where vulnerabilities often emerge. The result is a system in which security and resilience are inherent properties of the architecture rather than added features, where each layer reinforces the others, and where the whole system exhibits robustness that exceeds the sum of its individual components.
NIST/MITRE Systems Engineering concepts: ● adversarial rigor ● agility ● analyzability ● composability ● isolation ● minimization ● separation ● traceability.
Communication is protected by a system with unique architecture that is serverless, distributed and decentralized. The cryptography layer provides both forward secrecy and continual post-compromise security without exposing metadata. Isolation with a strong join, connect and disconnect flow is provided by Emergent Web Spaces. The infrastructure layer provides deployment versatility that reduces friction and eliminates targeting by device or vendor. Deploy then tear down in minutes with ephemeral sessions. Records retention for compliance is optional.
NIST SP 800-160 alignment: ● conceal ● obfuscate ● control visibility.
Cryptography is systematically strengthened when single points of failure are eliminated. Decentralization delivers a structural independence and control that is not reliant on providers and third-parties for assurance. Uncompromising category 5 KEM and DSA achieve dual resistance without the drawbacks encountered in legacy system post-quantum migration. Encapsulation and decapsulation are efficient and error-free. Test vectors prove correctness. Group messaging benefits from exceptionally small ciphertext.
NIST SP 800-160 alignment: ● randomize ● dynamically mask ● apply non-persistence.
Emergent Web Spaces are domains in which content is resolved from blocks of random data that have emergent properties. This inversion of the web’s fetch model upsets the entire basis for attacks and prevents adversaries from establishing a covert presence in systems. Each deployment provides unique isolation and autonomy that renders pages undetectable from outside the space. Emergent Web Spaces are unaffected by DNS vulnerabilities or corrupt certificates. Emergent Web Spaces are not subject to global organizations such as ICANN.
NIST SP 800-160 alignment: ● shift the attack surface ● control visibility ● make resources location versatile.
Deployment versatility provides significant advantages in flexibility, control, and efficiency. Exposing deployments to third-parties for their approval risks security and limits control. Eliminating lengthy app store review processes, approval delays, and content guidelines established by others enables rapid engagement on any device. Dynamically shift between any cloud, hybrid and on-premises to optimize performance and reduce costs to near zero. And without being restricted by standardized, limiting security frameworks of public app stores or cloud providers.
NIST SP 800-160 alignment: ● control visibility ● make resources location versatile ● layer and partition resources.
An insecure system can no longer be made secure by merely attaching defenses to it. Doing this increases complexity and makes vulnerabilities even harder to find. Only a secure systems engineering approach applied from the ground up will succeed.
Centralized "secure" platforms are hemorrhaging intelligence. Metadata leakage, server compromise, and supply chain attacks are happening right now, at scale. Zero-day exploits have increased significantly year over year. Attacks are more intelligent and rapidly adapt.
Organizations have few options and they all funnel into the same outcome - a loss of control. Continue renting legacy systems, host the same stuff on your own server and pay twice, or build a system yourself at great expense only to find it resembles legacy systems.
You need unassailable privacy and security. You want control and independence. You need resilience. This requires a future-proof standalone system designed from the ground up with you in mind. A system that is more easily proven. A system you can deploy then tear down in minutes. A system that is yours.
