The Defense and Aerospace sectors demand cryptographic solutions that are certifiable, tamper-resistant, and future-proof, capable of protecting everything from secure field radios and satellites to AI-based targeting and avionics control systems. These systems often operate in adversarial environments where physical access, side-channel attacks (SCA), and fault injection (FIA) are real threats.
FortifyIQ delivers software and hardware cryptographic solutions designed to meet the highest levels of assurance for both newly developed systems and deployed platforms needing secure upgrades. Our hardened cryptographic IP cores, software libraries, roots of trust, and EDA tools are engineered to secure mission-critical data across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains.
Devices are often deployed in contested environments and must remain secure even when physically captured or tampered with, protecting keys, algorithms, and mission data.
From autonomous drones to radar systems and tactical AI engines, AI must be protected against model theft, inference manipulation, and reverse engineering. FortifyIQ's EDA tools and crypto IPs defend AI models against physical extraction and runtime compromise.
Defense systems must meet a range of international and national security standards, including: FIPS 140-3 Levels 3/4 (cryptographic modules), Common Criteria AVA_VAN.5 (resistance to physical attack), NSA Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC), DO-326A / DO-356A for aviation cybersecurity, NATO, NIST, and EU NIS2 guidance
Military and aerospace platforms are often expected to remain in use for decades. Many have no hardware security features, yet must meet today’s strict cryptographic assurance levels. OTA-upgradable, physically hardened software libraries are one of the only viable ways to retrofit secure cryptography into legacy equipment.
Nation-state adversaries are preparing for the quantum era. Cryptographic systems in defense must be quantum-safe now, and hardened against both algorithmic and physical threats.
FortifyIQ delivers hardened cryptographic IP, software, and EDA tools designed to meet the mission-critical security, integration, and compliance demands of aerospace and defense platforms, including radiation tolerance, as well as side-channel and fault injection protection for your industry-specific applications, by request.
These internationally recognized certifications validate the security of cryptographic systems and hardware components across critical industries:
FortifyIQ’s cryptographic security IP and software libraries are designed to support compliance with all three standards, including the highest assurance levels. Our countermeasures are proven to resist advanced physical attacks, enabling secure certification even for resource-constrained devices.
Proven SCA and FIA resistance with formal security proofs and rigorous TVLA validation up to 1 billion traces in hardware, and verified no-leakage software against over 100K TVLA traces.
Minimal power, latency, and area overhead, ideal for radiation-hardened SoCs, secure processors, and low-SWaP systems.
Delivered as soft macros (synthesizable RTL), portable across ASICs, FPGAs, and mixed-technology platforms.
Highly configurable to mission-specific requirements , support for custom profiles, tuning for PPA, and integration into non-standard architectures.
No custom instructions or nonstandard integration paths: FortifyIQ crypto cores integrate like any standard cryptography IP core.
Defense-grade secure boot and attestation, with hardened Roots of Trust and crypto cores for trusted computing environments, optimized for minimal latency and area, designed for constrained platforms like field radios and tactical drones.
PQC support for long-lifecycle threat protection, including ML-KEM and ML-DSA for future-proofed defense applications.
FortifyIQ’s cryptographic IP cores, built on mathematically and practically validated countermeasures, ensure robust protection against advanced physical threats.
AES IP cores include:
Our validation methodology includes:
– Pre-silicon RTL validation using FortifyIQ’s EDA tools (TVLA, gate-level trace, attack simulation)
– FPGA and post-silicon testing
– Protection against DPA, CPA, EMA, and fault injection (e.g. voltage, EM, clock)
– Detection of non-invasive fault injection
After release, and when relevant, our IP cores are validated and/or certified by third party labs either as standalone blocks or integrated in complete secure chips.
For In-House Development, FortifyIQ’s Pre- and Post-Silicon Validation Tools, Side-Channel Studio and Fault Injection Studio, help eliminate vulnerabilities before deployment. These EDA tools validate physical attack resistance across execution timing, routing, memory, and submodules.
For high-assurance embedded designs:
For embedded lifecycle security:
Prevent key leakage, secure OTA updates, and protect embedded AI logic.
Secure flight software, control channels, and real-time AI inference.
Deploy crypto hardened against physical attack and radiation exposure (our IPs are soft-macro and technology agnostic)
Align with NSA and NATO cryptographic
guidelines.
Meet DO-326A/DO-356A mandates and protect avionics from tampering.
Prevent model theft and ensure integrity of mission-critical inference and control.
