Utility organizations are a potential target for criminal and terrorist activity. With workers regularly sharing confidential information, utilities should make no compromises on communications security and privacy.
DMR Tier 3 from Tait Communications has been engineered to support the highest levels of conversation privacy.
Encryption and encryption key management
Encryption of voice and data traffic is the most technically challenging barrier for cyber-criminals threatening to compromise the communications privacy of a utility organization.
The Tait DMR Tier 3 platform will support a range of highly secure air interface encryption mechanisms including DES and AES. The highly flexible Key Management Facility (KMF) developed by Tait will also support this, enabling regular and automated updating of hundreds of unique encryption keys across an entire radio fleet.
Tait KMF provides users with certainty that encryption keys are being regularly refreshed, therefore supporting security against external threats. Perhaps most importantly, KMF also unburdens your workforce from the labor-intensive update process. Tait KMF is a dynamically configurable system allowing for instant distribution of fresh encryption keys, so user groups can benefit from an even higher level of communications privacy.
Dynamic channel assignment eliminates eavesdropping
Another feature of DMR Tier 3 which dramatically enhances conversation privacy is the system’s real time dynamic assignment of voice and data channels. This feature makes it difficult for network members to eavesdrop on conversations they are not authorized to participate in.
With trunked DMR, it is entirely unpredictable which channel a specific conversation will be assigned to.
User authentication
User authentication provides a vital line of defense to protect against unauthorized channel access.
With Tait DMR Tier 3, radio authentication ensures that legitimate terminals have seamless access to the network, while access is excluded to unauthorized terminals. This feature is important for preventing incorrect information being spread through false voice or data calls.
Disabling radios with stun or kill
Tait DMR Tier 3 supports an Over The Air Programming (OTAP) feature enabling radio network administrators to disable radios.
With radios in use across a wide geographical area, some devices will unavoidably be lost or obtained by unauthorized users. DMR Tier 3 addresses this threat with a stun or kill function. Radio network administrators can temporarily or permanently kill a radio’s ability to function and connect to the network.
The DMR Tier 3 platform offers a no compromise choice for utility organizations looking to provide secure workforce communications now and into the future.
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