Synaptic Laboratories CTO Benjamin Gittins is to speak at the sixth Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop [CSIIRW] which will be held at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee on April 21 - 23, 2010. (ORNL is a world leading USA Federal science and technology laboratory. It has an annual budget of USD $1.05 billion with 1500 scientists and engineers, specialising in a wide range of domains from the world's largest super computers to national and global security).

The peer-reviewed proceedings will be published by the Association of Computing Machinery.

Benjamin will present the paper: "Overview of SLL's proposal in response to NIST's call for new global identity management / cryptographic key management designs without Public Keys". This proposal employs a trust model based on static assertions and behavioural security.

Benjamin also collaborated with researchers from Sonalysts Inc. and the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University in co-authoring a SECOND paper that has been accepted for presentation at CSIIRW entitled: "The Need to Consider Both Object Identity and Behavior in Establishing the Trustworthiness of Network Devices within a Smart Grid". This presentation illustrates the universal applicability of the Synaptic Labs' IdM/CKM in the context of a unique and significant proposal of creating a trusted network from untrusted components, using Smart Electricity Grids as an example.

About Synaptic Laboratories Limited

Synaptic Laboratories Limited is developing the next generation of secure communications products and protocols to protect global communication networks. Synaptic is guided by a vision of "Long term, high-assurance global data security for all stake-holders". Synaptic drives data security through the development of innovative security technologies founded on well studied cryptographic techniques. Synaptic can be found on the Web at http://synaptic-labs.com