Full voice and data encryption for communications that must stay private.

Why encryption matters

Radio signals travel through the open air, and unencrypted transmissions can be received by anyone nearby with inexpensive equipment. For a police department, that can compromise an operation. For a casino, a hospital, or a security company, it can expose information about guests, patients, cash movements, and incidents that should never leave the organization.

How radio encryption works

An encrypted radio scrambles voice and data with a digital key before transmitting. Only radios loaded with the same key can turn the signal back into intelligible audio. To everyone else, the transmission is noise. Digital radio standards support several levels of protection, from basic privacy features to AES-256, the strong encryption standard used by government and public safety agencies.

Voice and data

Encryption protects more than conversation. Text messages, GPS location data, and telemetry sent over the radio system can be encrypted as well, which keeps the position and status of your people as private as their voices.

Managed properly

Encryption is only as strong as the way its keys are handled. FirstCom Radio helps you choose the right level of protection, loads keys securely, and plans how keys will be changed and how a lost or stolen radio will be disabled.