01. The Client

Ambrey Risk is an international risk management and security consultancy with headquarters in the UK. Ambrey offer management, security, risk and technical consultancy in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and their staff routinely operate in remote, sometimes hostile environments on land and at sea around the globe.

02. The Challenge

Because of the nature of their work and the locations in which they work, secure offline working when they had no Internet connectivity was a challenge. Processing data on a laptop is too vulnerable and fragments data. For operational reasons, Ambrey team members occasionally have to use other people's computers in theatre.

Ambrey needed a means of working offline securely. But they also needed to aggregate and make available to the rest of the team the data they created or changed offline. They also required the mechanism to be a zero software install on any computers they used.

03. The Solution

Extrinsica Global developed Secure Edge to meet Ambrey Risk's requirement to have remote or mobile staff work securely on sensitive data outside the corporate network. The Secure Edge Device (SED) is a 256-bit encrypted IronKey®, which has a virtual workspace installed onto it with applications that enable secure offline working.

The device undertakes end point analysis of the computer it's plugged into to determine if it is free from viruses that could compromise its use and also ensures that data created or modified using the SED offline is secured on the device; it cannot be saved anywhere else.

The device has data synchronisation software installed to automatically and securely synchronise offline data with the Extrinsica Global cloud platform. If the SED is lost or stolen, the data is secured and the device can be pre-programmed or remotely instructed to destroy itself, ensuring data cannot fall into the wrong hands.

04. The Outcome

Secure Edge was used most recently during the turmoil in Egypt. Key members of the Ambrey Team deployed at very short notice to Cairo where they found that the authorities had switched off all Internet connections in the country. The Team organised a satellite based communications link but, in the intervening period, they were able to work offline and know that the data they created was protected by 256-bit hardware encryption and the SEDs could be discreetly carried without attracting unwanted attention.

When Internet connectivity was restored, all of the data created, including emails drafted, on the SED was synchronised automatically with the Extrinsica Global cloud platform. This aggregated the data that the Cairo Team had created and made it available to other key staff in the UK.

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