Innovation & Experimentation

Investigating 'next generation' and 'generation after next' problems and solutions

Our Innovation & Experimentation
services are comprised of the following

Innovation projects generally take two forms:

A technology led approach, to understand the use cases for how emerging technology can be applied;
A strict focus on a particular unsolved problem or a step change improvement in performance.

Nexor engages with customers who have a unique or previously unsolved information exchange problems, offering expertise from consultants who have been operating in this domain for decades, to discover the art of the possible and design tailored solutions that meet specific needs. Nexor has the capability to offer these services to customers operating in High Assurance environments through our extensive knowledge on threat and risk mitigation and secure information exchange, including flow control, verification, and transformation.

Customers recognise at a fundamental level what they want to achieve but understanding the issues that prevent them from realising their aims may require a deeper level of expertise. Nexor consultants will help you identify the barriers to success and provide recommendations as to approaches for removing or bypassing them.

Nexor solution architects are experts in secure information exchange and cross domain interoperability, having designed and implemented solutions for defence and security organisations across Europe. They can offer support and expertise covering the full development lifecycle of an information exchange solution. They can understand how information flows will fit into your organisation’s operational architecture, and from this design a secure data architecture that meets your requirements. Equally importantly, they will understand the threats and risks that must be managed to allow the appropriate confidentiality, availability, and integrity of the data that matters to you.

Nexor can utilise either our own flexible Secure Information eXchange Architecture (SIXA®), or suitable third-party technology platforms to deliver an information exchange prototype which has an architecture aligned in structure to the NCSC data import and export patterns. We adopt an agile collaborative approach, allowing us to respond quickly to critical problems and identify issues early leading to a prototype that meets business and security objectives. This approach allows potential solutions to fail fast, meaning that wasted effort is minimised.

Before prototypes can be turned into full solutions, the capability to integrate with the customer’s systems must be achieved. Nexor consultants will carry out an assessment of the deployment environment to identify potential issues and build an understanding around the changes to the prototype necessary to enable a seamless and speedy integration into this environment.

Nexor’s solution delivery methodology is designed to integrate solutions into customer systems both effectively and efficiently. Our DevOps capability combined with close collaboration with a customer’s operational team enables the rapid deployment of solutions without unduly impacting business operations and allows for the speedy resolution of security issues.

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Benefits

The principal benefit of Nexor's approach is that it provides evidence to guide capability decisions in the near, medium, and long term, whilst reducing the risk of designing, developing, and implementing solutions that either do not address the problem or are not usable by the end users.

Through Nexor’s Innovation and Experimentation services we enable you to adapt to changing needs, or better define your future systems, with suitable agility and to cost effectively find the best way to solve end user problems and/or enable a step change in performance

This can only be achieved through clear problem definition and the timely exploration of ideas, generating evidence that enables effective decisions and choices.

CUSTOMER FOCUSED SCENARIO

Implementing Secure Remote Video Control

When you have remotely controlled cameras in operation you need to find a secure way of receiving information from the cameras and a secure way to control them without leaking information.

Challenge

Security cameras were being used for the protection of military forces which were located in insecure public areas and sent vital imagery back to secure control rooms for monitoring.

Solution

Nexor implements a solutions of diodes and guards that enforced one way flow control on both the channel in that viewed the camera feeds and the channel out that was required to control the cameras.

Outcome

This solution allowed the customer to consolidate multiple on site less secure control rooms into one secure control room that could monitor and control multiple camera feeds at the same time.

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