• “We are a cyber nation. The U.S. information infrastructure--including telecommunications and computer networks and systems and the data that reside on them--is critical to virtually every aspect of modern life. This information infrastructure is increasingly vulnerable to exploitation, disruption, and destruction by a growing array of adversaries.”

    The National Coordination Office (NCO) for Networking Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD), Federal Register: December 30, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 250).

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  • "Today’s systems must anticipate future attacks. Any comprehensive system – whether for authenticated communications, secure data storage, or electronic commerce – is likely to remain in use for five years or more. It must be able to withstand the future: smarter attackers, more computational power, and greater incentives to subvert a widespread system. There won’t be time to upgrade it in the field."

    Bruce Schneier, "Why Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks", 1997
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  • "But conventional security is not enough. The complexity of today's operational environment means organisations must embrace a level of business resilience that is normally associated with the protection of critical national infrastructure."

    Detica, a BAE Systems Company

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Summit: National Cyber Leap Year Summit 2009 (Nov 2009)
Organisation:

US Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
Synaptic Labs' Participation:

The 17-19 August 2009 ‘closed’ USA National Cybersecurity Summit explored new proposals to protect the USA national ICT infrastructure.

The Summit brought together 125 of the USA’s leading innovators with 40 observers from 13 of the largest USA Federal Agencies.

On the strength of Synaptic Labs' three submissions to the NITRD Leap Ahead call for ideas, our CTO was one of the very non USA Citizens invited to attend this summit. Synaptic Labs made 6 innovative proposals to the Summit and all were accepted and included in, and Synaptic Labs was named in, the summit report.

See relevant extracts, including the 6 innovative proposals, from those reports here.
About NCLY: "The Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program, under guidance from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense Networks and Information Integration held a National Cyber Leap Year Summit.

The Summit gathered innovators from the academic and commercial sectors for an unconventional exploration of five fundamentally game-changing concepts in cybersecurity."
Key message:

"The Nation’s economic progress and social well-being now depend as heavily on cyberspace assets as on interest rates, roads, and power plants, yet our digital infrastructure and its foundations are still far from providing the guarantees that can justify our reliance on them. The inadequacy of today’s cyberspace mechanisms to support the core values underpinning our way of life has become a national problem."
Keywords: leap ahead, NITRD, game change, identifier based encryption
Website: http://www.nitrd.gov/leapyear/index.aspx
Citation:

QinetiQ. National Cyber Leap Year Summit 2009 – Co-Chairs’ Report. On behalf of the US NITRD Program. [Link]

QinetiQ. National Cyber Leap Year Summit 2009 – Participants’ Ideas Report. On behalf of the US NITRD Program. [Link]

Extracts from the NCLY Summit Reports and comments website related to Synaptic Labs. [Link]
See also:

US President's 60 day cyberspace policy review
IEEE Key Management Summit 2010
IBE enabling ubiquitous uptake of encryption
Behavioural Trust and Identity
About NITRD: The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program is America's primary source of Federally funded revolutionary breakthroughs in advanced information technologies such as computing, networking, and software. NITRD is a collaboration of more than a dozen Federal research and development agencies, including DARPA, DHS, DOE, EPA, NARA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, NSA, NSF, OSD and DoD.

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