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Cyber

NSA Certifies Raytheon’s New KG-350 Ethernet Encryption System

Thursday, July 28th, 2016

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NSA Certifies Raytheon’s New KG-350 Ethernet Encryption System

A KG-350 Ethernet encryption system. Image: Raytheon.

Raytheon [RTN] is launching a new National Security Agency (NSA)-certified KG-350 Ethernet encryption system that can work for classified systems, the company said Wednesday.The KG-350 can protect network communications for sensitive information leading up to Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) classified information. The NSA certified this system as Type 1, allowing the company to sell the KG-350 to commercial, military, and government customers immediately, the company said.Raytheon highlighted the KG-30 works in the Layer 2 encryption market, the faster network…

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