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Public Sector

Secure cryptographic foundations for identity systems, defense infrastructure, and digital government platforms

FortifyIQ delivers resilient cryptographic protection for government systems where national security, regulatory compliance, and physical attack resistance are essential. Our hardware IP, software libraries, Roots of Trust, and security assessment EDA tools support secure deployment in identity systems, secure communications, border infrastructure, and public sector data platforms, whether in embedded systems, classified environments, or cost-constrained deployments.

Industry Requirements

FortifyIQ’s cryptographic portfolio meets industry demands through high-assurance, performance-optimized solutions. The public sector operates under some of the world’s most stringent cybersecurity and compliance mandates:

Federal and International Standards

Systems must align with frameworks such as FISMA, NIST SP 800-53, FIPS 140-3, Common Criteria (up to AVA_VAN.5), and relevant NATO or EU standards.

Advanced Attack Protection

Government applications require resistance to side-channel (SCA) and fault injection attacks (FIA) to protect cryptographic modules in critical infrastructure.

Hardware-constrained Environments

Many platforms, including smart cards or field-deployed sensors, require cryptographic functions to operate securely under strict power, size, and latency constraints.

Cross-platform Readiness

Government infrastructure includes secure cloud, sovereign chiplets, embedded control systems, and legacy hardware, all of which must be protected to the same high standard.

Why FortifyIQ ?

FortifyIQ offers the rare combination of deep technical assurance, compliance alignment, and practical deployability, essential for government systems facing today’s escalating physical and cryptographic threats.

FIPS 140-3, Common Criteria, NIST SP 800-53, and SESIP international standards certify resistance to physical attacks:
  • FIPS 140-3 – U.S. standard for cryptographic modules (used in government, finance, and defense).
  • Common Criteria – Global framework for evaluating IT security (e.g., AVA_VAN.5 testing).
  • SESIP – Modern certification for IoT and embedded systems, aligned with global regulations.
  • NIST SP 800-53 defines the security and privacy controls federal systems must meet under FISMA.

Built for Compliance

FortifyIQ’s cryptographic security IP and software libraries are designed to support compliance with all four standards, including the highest assurance levels. Our countermeasures are proven to resist advanced physical attacks, enabling secure certification.

Security Proven in Practice and Theory

FortifyIQ’s AES IP is validated to AVA_VAN.5 by SGS Brightsight for side-channel and fault-injection resistance, and even validated against over 1 billion side-channel traces. The HMAC SHA2 IP is protected by an efficient patented algorithm based on the proven threshold implementation and validated past 100 million side-channel traces, indicating no exploitable leakage. Our asymmetric cryptography and software, too, meet the most demanding international benchmarks.

Built for Smooth Integration

Whether deployed in modern chiplets, embedded field systems, or long-serving legacy platforms, FortifyIQ’s soft IP cores and secure Roots of Trust (RoTs) with on-the-fly encryption/decryption integrate seamlessly into SoCs, FPGAs, secure microcontrollers, and chiplets. Our solutions are implementation-, technology-, and foundry-agnostic, ensuring interoperability and future-proof security.

Independent IP Validation

In an era of increasing geopolitical and supply chain risk, FortifyIQ enables sovereign cryptographic design with EDA tools that support sovereign IP validation, pre-silicon (at the gate-level netlist and on FPGA boards), and post-silicon. This capability is essential for countries and agencies that require the ability to design, test, and certify their own chips or cryptographic functions independently, without relying on foreign or opaque third-party technologies.

Post-quantum Readiness

FortifyIQ offers hardware and software IP cores prepared for post-quantum cryptographic deployment, including hardened implementations of PQC algorithms.

Secure Without Hardware

Our software crypto libraries achieve high assurance without requiring dedicated hardware, the AES implementation reaching up to 900 Mbps on a standard laptop 3.4 GHz CPU, suitable for secure fallback or legacy deployments.

FortifyIQ Solutions for Government Systems

Solution Category

Software Crypto Libraries

FortifyIQ Offering

AES, HMAC-SHA2, public key (ECC, RSA, etc.), and (soon) PQC libraries hardened against SCA and FIA. Suitable for legacy, low-cost, or field-deployed systems without secure hardware.

Solution Category

Hardware Crypto IP Cores

FortifyIQ Offering

Side-channel and fault-resistant IP for AES, HMAC, PKA, PQC, and more, designed to meet FIPS and Common Criteria targets with excellent PPA for government use-cases, including resource-constrained applications.

Solution Category

Root of Trust (RoT)

FortifyIQ Offering

Secure anchors supporting boot integrity, key management, and on-the-fly encryption.

Solution Category

EDA Tools for Pre-silicon Validation

FortifyIQ Offering

FortifyIQ’s internal and customer-facing tools enable RTL-level simulation and validation against side-channel and fault attacks, supporting security assurance and sovereign IP development. They integrate with your existing testbenches and functional verification workflows.

What FortifyIQ Provides:

  • Cryptographic modules compliant with FIPS 140-3 and designed to meet Common Criteria (ISO/IEC 15408) standards for government-grade security.
  • Support for compliance with NIST SP 800-53 technical controls, including: SC-12 to SC-28 (cryptographic protection), SI-7 and SI-16 (software/firmware integrity and tamper resistance), and controls related to secure boot, lifecycle protection, and physical attack resilience.
  • Fully SCA/FIA-hardened Roots of Trust (RoTs) for secure identity provisioning, system startup, and cryptographic operations.
  • Solutions tailored for voting systems (e.g., secure firmware, tamper detection), classified or encrypted communication devices, eID and digital identity management systems, and government cloud endpoints and border control infrastructure.
  • Support for multi-level certification and protection against invasive and non-invasive physical attacks.
  • Assistance with secure firmware update and cryptographic lifecycle management throughout deployment and device refresh cycles.

Secure Today, Ready for Tomorrow

FortifyIQ empowers government agencies and public-sector organizations with cryptographic solutions that combine high assurance, proven physical attack resistance, and post-quantum readiness. With FortifyIQ, public-sector systems are protected today and prepared for the evolving cybersecurity landscape of tomorrow.

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Fortify’s AES security evaluation by SGS

“Summary. The leakage analysis (Welch t-test) on over 30 million traces did not show statistically significant first- and second-order differences between trace sets with fixed and random inputs. The template-based DPA analysis, on the pseudo-random trace set for the profiling phase (15 million traces) and on a sub-set of 300k fix input traces for matching phase targeting the first-round S-box output, and template attack on ciphertext, did not indicate any potential information leakage.”

” The results for the soft IP presented in the report were obtained on the TOE which is the basic hardware implementation of the soft IP without additional levels of security (e.g. that are present in a secure silicon layout). Therefore the internal strength of the soft IP itself was evaluated. This indicates that the investigated features and parameters of the soft IP implementation should be robust against SCA and fault injection attacks in different implementations including ASIC. Nevertheless, according to the Common Criteria rules, the strength of the final composite product must be evaluated on its own.”

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