Supporting European Security and Intelligence
European defense and intelligence operations depend on secure information exchange across borders, systems, and allied environments.
Meeting applicable NIS2, NATO STANAG, and DEF STAN 05-138 requirements demands strong data protection, controlled access, and secure collaboration.
Reduce Exposure
Challenge: Nation-state adversaries and supply chain compromises are expanding the attack surface, giving APTs new pathways into trusted environments.
Solution: Fortra helps stop sophisticated threats at the point of entry, reducing exposure from compromised partners and strengthening defense against targeted attacks.
Automate Policy Enforcement
Challenge: As mission demands intensify and compliance requirements tighten, teams are asked to do more without added capacity.
Solution: Fortra reduces analyst burden by automating policy enforcement, minimizing false positives, and ensuring sensitive data is handled correctly.
Unify Data Protection
Challenge: Sensitive data crosses multiple domains and classification boundaries, often without consistent, enforceable controls.
Solution: Fortra delivers unified, policy-driven data protection that supports Zero Trust-aligned control, visibility, and enforcement across domains and classification boundaries.
Extend Existing Infrastructure
Challenge: Legacy systems often lack the encryption, governance, and interoperability needed to support secure intelligence sharing and modern mission requirements.
Solution: Fortra extends data security controls across existing infrastructure, helping legacy environments align with current encryption and compliance requirements while securely operating with newer platforms.
Case Study: Cross Domain and Secure Collaboration
Scenario
- Large European defence contractor collaborating with US prime on large project falling under ITAR, CUI, etc.
- Need to receive and share highly sensitive data from/with partners securely
Challenges
- Significant threat of sophisticated malware and zero-day risks
- Different compliance requirements for different customers caused end user friction and high operational overhead
- Export Control team needed to review and approve sharing of data with certain classification levels
Results
- Deployed following Fortra solutions: Data Classification, Data Loss Prevention, Secure ICAP Gateway, Secure File Transfer
- Integrated workflows ensured:
- Sophisticated malware risks sanitized and mitigated
- Sensitive data only shared with appropriate internal and external recipients
- Manual approval process streamlined to minimize operational overhead and delays
Case Study: Fortra Secure Email Gateway
Scenario
- European defence organization faced sophisticated threats over email
- Sensitive data accidentally exposed to the wrong internal and external recipients
- Hidden data risks had exposed sensitive information
- Overly restrictive policies imposed high management burden on security team
Challenges
- More than 350,000 users
- Complex policy requirements
- Encrypted emails needed to be inspected against policy
- Legitimate communications could not be interrupted or slowed
Results
- Deployed Fortra Secure Email Gateway
- OCR extended sensitive data protection
- Redaction and sanitization used to remove risk without interrupting communications
- Automated encryption ensured protection of sensitive data in transit
- Burden on security team reduced, with real risks easier to identify
Case Study: Fortra Offensive Security
Scenario
- Large European defence contractor used internal red team to test effectiveness of cybersecurity defences in complex environments
- Goal was to proactively identify vulnerabilities so security team could mitigate risks and reduce risk of reputational damage
- Requirement from customers to demonstrate security posture
Challenges
- Team were struggling to balance overhead of maintaining own red teaming tools with delivering engagements
- Complexity of environment and pace of change of defensive tools imposed significant maintenance and development overhead
Results
- Deployed Fortra Cobalt Strike and Outflank Security Tooling
- Provided collaborative C2 platform to streamline engagements
- OST reduced maintenance and development overhead
- Enabled team to focus more on delivering engagements
Case Study: Fortra Security Configuration Management
Scenario
- Large European defense contractor needed to ensure alignment with range of compliance requirements (e.g. ITAR) and security frameworks (e.g. NIST)
- Security team needed to accurately and efficiently assess the security posture of their systems
- Requirement to demonstrate cybersecurity posture to customers
Challenges
- Complexity of environment and pace of change required rapid assessment of new infrastructure and identification of configuration drift
- Current toolset didn’t provide effective coverage outside of Microsoft ecosystem
- Existing processes very manual, imposing significant operational burden
Results
- Deployed Fortra Security Configuration Management
- Extended visibility security posture across organization’s broader infrastructure
- Allowed team to rapidly identify security and compliance risks, and validate remediation
- Reduced operational involved in demonstrating security posture internally and to customers
Start with Classification, Built for the Defense Mission.
Data Classification
Data Loss Prevention
DSPM
Managed File Transfer
Secure, automate, and streamline sensitive file transfers among internal and external users.
Secure Email Gateway
Protect against inbound email cyberattacks and prevent outbound data loss.
Pen Testing Tools
Establish scope, map adversary attack paths, prove exploitability of critical weaknesses, and validate remediation.
Red Teaming Tools
Simulate persistent threat actors, execute social, technical, and advanced exploits, pressure detection and response, and equip defenders with actionable intelligence.
Use Cases: Mission Impact
Operational Communications
Secure transfer of mission-critical reports, ISR data, logistics files and operational planning documents
Sensitive Data Governance
Protection of classified, personal and operational information
Joint and Coalition Operations
Controlled file exchanges between Five Eyes/coalition partners with full governance
Cybersecurity Hardening
Reduced attack surface, elimination of shadow IT file-sharing tools and improved audit readiness
Supply Chain Assurance
Secure onboarding and data exchange between Defence primes, contractors, vendors and partners
Supporting NATO CCDCOE’s Flagship Cyber Defense Exercise
Fortra’s Cobalt Strike is a proud supporter of Locked Shields, the largest and most complex international live-fire cyber defense exercise, organized by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCDCOE). Through licensing and hands-on support, we’re backing the security testers who bring realistic adversary pressure to the event. Our contribution reflects Fortra’s broader commitment to equipping public sector organizations with the tools and training they need to meet today’s toughest threats.
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