The NATO Information Assurance Technical Centre has announced that the NCSA will host the NMS specific PKI during NMS Phase 1.

SMHS Ltd has extended its development prototype work to support the standardisation of STANAG 4406 Edition 2 Elements of Service for Internet Email.

To help gain wider adoption of this approach, SMHS has prototyped extensions to the popular Microsoft Outlook Email Clients. More details can be found here.

This development effort again highlights the simplicity of adding MMHS over SMTP to COTS Internet Email Clients.

After offering competing MMHS solutions for decades, Nexor and Boldon James have announced a strategic partnership that will result in a combined MMHS offering.

SMHS Ltd has been working on the standardisation of STANAG 4406 Edition 2 Elements of Service for Internet Email. One of the Internet Drafts that has been submitted to the IETF is the Registration of Military Message Handling System (MMHS) header fields for use in Internet Mail.

In order to help gain wider adoption of this approach for MMHS over SMTP, SMHS has prototyped a number of extensions to popular email clients. More details can be found here.

Nexor have introduced a new data diode product to sit alongside it other products that provide assured data transfer between different security domains.
The product appears to be a rebadging of the Fox-IT Data Diode. Nexor is listed as their UK partner. The data diode uses a reliable, one-way, protocol over a single fibre of optical cable to bridge conventional TCP-IP based procotols such as FTP and SMTP.

After thirteen year, ACP 123, “Common Messaging Strategy and Procedures", has been updated to Edition B. ACP123(B), dated May 2009, is now the effective standard for CCEB Nations, replacing ACP123(A) dated August 1997.

The NEDS procurement have issued amendment 11 and extended the bid submission date from 6th November 2009 to 3rd March 2010. This is in regard to the invitation of bids by the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A) for the support of the NATO Enterprise Directory Service (NEDS) Phase 2.
The intention of this project is to provide services for the filtering and synchronisation of information between the various NATO directories.

Isode, the developers of high performance messaging and directory service software, have announced that they will be adding a new product,
M-Link Edge, to their R14.6 which is scheduled for release in March 2010.

In recent work conducted by NATO and the nations to find solutions to meet the complexity of label harmonization, it has been realized that the use of equivalentLabels provides increased flexibility to support label harmonization.

Version 1.1 of the Implementer's Guide for STANAG 4631 has consequently made the support for the RFC 2634 Enhanced Security Services equivalentLabels signed attribute mandatory.

A management team has bought the Clearswift Specialist Products Division which will trade as Deep Secure Ltd.