Synaptic is assisting the NATO Project SFP 983805: "Emergent phenomena testbed simulator for improving SCADA performance in power system security management".

Synaptic and it's collaborator Sonalysts presented a paper on securing smart grids at ORNL Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop 2010.

Sonalyst's and their collaborators jointly wrote a paper titled: "Combining Trust and Behavioral Analysis to Detect Security Threats in Open Environments" that was submitted and accepted into the NATO Information Assurance and Cyber Defence Symposium in Turkey 2010. That paper promotes Synaptic's IdM/CKM proposal as an enabling technology in securing smart grids. (The event was cancelled at very late notice due to volcanic ash activity, new date to be advised.)

NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The NATO headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, and the organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party. The combined military spending of all NATO members constitutes over 70% of the world's defence spending, with the United States alone accounting for about half the total military spending of the world and the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy accounting for a further 15%.

NATO's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen recently named cybersecurity among the top three priorities for defence. [Link]

After the 2007 cyber attacks against Estonia that swamped websites of Estonian organizations (including Estonian parliament, banks, ministries, newspapers and broadcasters) NATO opens new centre of excellence in cyber defence in Estonia (2008). [Link]

http://www.nato.int/