Operational exercises
As mentioned under Products, Cord3’s current product offerings include enforcement points for chat, SharePoint, and email. However, Cord3 DCS can be used to protect all kinds of data. As part of various operational exercises, Cord3 has successfully extended its DCS capabilities to Coalition Server Database (CSD), Pub/Sub Mesh, and more.
Below is an overview of some of our major operational exercises and accomplishments. Organizations needing data security can rely on Cord3 as a partner ready to implement DCS quickly and effectively!
CWIX
Cord3’s DCS solution proved its maturity and leadership on the world stage during NATO’s CWIX interoperability exercises. Cord3 successfully demonstrated advanced datacentric protection, seamless cross-coalition information sharing, and robust implementation of emerging NATO standards.‑centric protection, seamless cross‑coalition information sharing, and robust implementation of emerging NATO standards.
Our DCS capabilities:
- Validated a powerful security overlay architecture that integrates effortlessly with existing national IT systems while providing consistent, policy driven protection across applications and networks.
- Achieved successful white box and black box interoperability with NATO partners, proving the ability to exchange policy labeled, securely bound information assets using STANAG 4774/4778 standards.
- Showcased a flexible and scalable information sharing model, including dynamic creation and transformation of electronic Information Sharing Agreements (eISAs) across national domains.
- Delivered strong results in real world coalition scenarios, including full success in US white box testing and partial successes with NCIA, ITA, and NLD black box testing—producing invaluable insights to advance NATO interoperability.
- Provided key lessons for future coalition operations, influencing standards evolution, implementation guidance, and next generation data centric security capabilities.
Cord3’s participation not only validated the strength of our technology but reinforced our leadership role in shaping the future of secure, standards‑based coalition information sharing through data-centric security.
Joint Warrior
Joint Warrior is a multinational live military exercise with participation from NATO and other allied partners. During the Joint Warrior 17-2 Exercise (JW172), the Canadian Armed Forces put DCS to the test and successfully proved its real-world impact. During the exercise, DCS was successfully deployed and validated.
Instead of relying on traditional perimeter defenses, DCS protects information at the data asset level. As demonstrated, email and document data remained encrypted, policycontrolled, and secure from origin to destination. Even across unreliable SATCOM and High Frequency (HF) subnet relay links, and while transiting partner nation networks, DCS kept mission data encrypted, controlled, and tamperproof —delivering secure, policydriven access without slowing operations.
MII 3.0
MII 3.0 is a Mission Partner Environment (MPE) interoperability initiative that took place in September 2023. Cord3 participated in MII 3.0 alongside the Canadian Armed Forces (CANSOFCOM). This initiative demonstrated a global, distributed Data-Centric Interoperability (DCI) environment that supported collaboration and mission tasks across multiple mission partners and secret releasabilities without the need for a Cross-Domain Solution (CDS).
DCS and ABAC increase the security of data by providing additional defense-in-depth at the individual data object level. For the first time in a coalition setting, data sharing was performed using ZTDF with unique cryptographic protections for different Communities of Interest (COIs). MII 3.0 successfully demonstrated zero-trust principles as applied to individual data objects, coalition data sharing, and interoperability.
MII 3.0 proved partners can be incorporated into COIs in minutes using DCS and ABAC, as opposed to the weeks or months it takes to do so in traditional Network-Centric Security (NCS) environments. Initiated at the Commander’s discretion, a new COI, which included FVEY members and six additional partners, increased information sharing for ongoing missions. MII 3.0 also successfully demonstrated various other capabilities, including multinational policy enforcement.
Bold Quest 2024 (BQ24)
US Joint Staff J6, Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM), Canadian Chief of Combat Systems Integration (CCSI), COFx/CISR users (CAN, USA, GBR, DEU, FIN, POL, LTU, NOR) teamed up to conduct a CJADC2 operational demonstration in late October 2024. This event leveraged the Project Olympus mission thread, and informed CJADC2 Lines of Effort (LOEs): LOE 1 (Data) and LOE 5 (Modernize Mission Partner Information Sharing).
Attribute-based access control was successfully used to protect data on DCS-enabled CSD, SharePoint, and chat services. Security labels and PEPs were used to provide DCS protection. As part of BQ24, Full Motion Video (FMV) clips were successfully tagged, encrypted, and uploaded to the CSD with various releasabilities. Cord3 DCS successfully protected these files from unauthorized access.
SABRE
Cord3 DCS technology was successfully demonstrated and integrated within the Secret and Below Releasable Environment (SABRE) lab. As demonstrated, Cord3 technology:
- Encrypts data at rest and in transit using strong, auditable cryptographic controls.
- Enforces strict access control policies, which also protect data from high-privileged administrators.
- Provides a security overlay that works transparently with existing applications and infrastructure, without requiring code changes or extensive modifications.
This milestone underscores Cord3’s commitment to elevating data security while minimizing friction for organizations. The SABRE integration confirms that Cord3’s approach can meet stringent regulatory and security frameworks, aligning directly with Zero Trust mandates and Mission Partner Environment (MPE) requirements.