Security is paramount for every industry, and especially those managing
sprawling environments. From industrial work zones to college campuses, both
physical and data security are key to ensuring the safety of people, the
safeguarding of equipment, and the protection of valued information. With
operations rapidly digitalising, and the potential for hacks and breaches
rising, proactive 24/7 security monitoring across operations is necessary
“Staying connected is
critical for several reasons, not least of which is that when security breaches
take place, alerts and supporting data/videos need to be relayed in real-time
to recipients, to facilitate immediate action. A reliable and always-on network
is therefore an essential component of any business or organisation, with
particular emphasis on large and remote sites. Rajant’s Kinetic Mesh supports
both mobile and fixed assets, addressing diverse requirements for enhanced
security and safety across your operations,” says Teresa Huysamen, Wireless
Business Unit Executive at Duxbury Networking, local distributors of Rajant
technology.
Rajant’s private wireless
network is empowering those charged with industrial security to gain
comprehensive, real-time situational awareness across their entire environment
– keeping people safe and systems secured. That is because Kinetic Mesh
includes the military-grade cryptographic solutions for end-to-end information
assurance across the network, while at the same time enables next-gen security
applications themselves – including surveillance drones, inspection bots, and
guarding robots – by providing resilient, continuous communication links over
which to gather and output real-time data.
Connected devices and
people all generate data, which, if carried through a secure and reliable
communication network, can fortify monitoring, situational awareness, security
management, and rapid response. As the use of air, land, and sea robots to
supplement security workforces increases, secure data-sharing and device
cross-communication becomes even more critical. These assets are highly mobile
and demand continuous high-capacity links over which to transmit audio, video,
and sensor data. If there are drops in connectivity or systems cannot talk to
each other, important information can be missed, and security or safety
breaches can happen.
Powering real-time security applications
Kinetic Mesh employs
any-node-to-any-node communications to ensure no single point of failure and
extreme reliability, as BreadCrumb® nodes can hold multiple connections over
multiple frequencies simultaneously. The network is infused with the intelligence
of Rajant’s InstaMesh® networking protocol which seamlessly links fixed,
wireless, and mobile nodes together.
It continually works to
select the fastest path for delivery among the meshed connections and will
dynamically redirect traffic to the next-best available path(s) if any one peer
is compromised or obstructed. Multi-radio, multi-frequency redundancy creates
‘never-break’ coverage even in hard-to-network settings, providing for
continuous data flow to, from, and between the infrastructure and assets
performing security-related operations.
Because every BreadCrumb
node can be fixed or mobile, they can be deployed directly on robotics used for
security and safety operations. From aerial drones surveilling large-scale
environments, to patrol robots guarding desolate perimeters, to bots performing
highly targeted tasks like lock inspections, these assets can take resilient
connectivity with them wherever they go.
Rajant is the only network
that enables physical assets to communicate directly with each other. Any
BreadCrumb-equipped machines can share data directly and in turn coordinate
tasks to proactively enhance security or safety, or respond rapidly to
breaches.
Rajant BreadCrumbs offer
many levels of encryption to protect packets from devices and people accessing
them directly. Packet cipher and MAC address cipher settings from X-Salsa basic
encryption to Suite B military-grade encryption are available, with per-packet,
per-hop authentication to prevent packet injection and MAC spoofing.
BreadCrumbs also support
Access Control Lists (ACLs) to prevent unwanted MAC addresses from sending or
receiving information from the Kinetic Mesh network. Rajant’s robust protection
extends to mesh endpoints, providing varying levels of security on access point
connections, including WEP, WPA, WPA2 personal, mixed, and enterprise.
Additionally, Rajant’s newest cryptographic module technology, the Wolverine,
contains advanced encryption and authentication algorithms using a fail-safe
design to provide design flexibility for multiple IIoT applications.
Improving physical security and protecting data flows
Any location where people
and infrastructure reside needs to be protected. Some locations can be rural or
sprawling, which makes it difficult to manually patrol the entire area
effectively. Rajant enables operations to supplement human guarding, with
robotics and autonomous platforms, providing the continuous data link they need
to run 24/7. With real-time input, they can output data and perform tasks that
would be difficult or dangerous for people to execute. They can also link up
with cameras, intrusion detection systems, keypads, and other security bots to
share data and react accordingly – speeding response time if security or safety
infractions do occur.
Data security is critical
to safeguard proprietary and sensitive information and to ensure that the data
leadership teams base decisions on is not corrupt or compromised. Rajant’s
technology was born from military applications and is the only wireless network
to offer multiple cryptographic options inclusive of NSA Suite B algorithms and
down to per-hop, per-packet authentication. This protects data flowing between
machines in the field, to the command centre, and to the enterprise.
With Rajant, rather than
waiting for a security breach or safety situation to occur, teams can begin to
proactively assess their security stance and head off potential issues with
immediacy. Kinetic Mesh, with its mission-critical network reliability and
rapid scalability to cover wide-ranging, highly diverse environments, gives a
standardised solution to satisfy the myriad security requirements across any of
the areas you need to protect.
The convergence of physical
and information risks demands bulk protection in equal measure. Secure data
communication is mission-critical to these initiatives, along with real-time
insight into everything happening across a company’s operations. Rajant’s
proven ability to protect critical data and to run advanced applications for
physical security makes it the ideal network to enhance an organisation’s
security stance.
Security teams and
organisational leadership can rest assured knowing that Kinetic Mesh is
providing real-time audio, video, and data streams from every corner of their
operations without fail – helping them identify and react to changing security
issues quickly. Rajant’s network provides continuous mobile connectivity that
enables roaming security robots to broadcast telemetry and live video from
distant zones to security or command centres with no data drops. The
high-capacity network easily runs bandwidth-intensive video and data streaming
applications for instant access to crucial information.