• "Given their power to intercept and disrupt secret communications, it is not surprising that quantum computers have the attention of various U.S. government agencies.  The National Security Agency, which supports research in quantum computing, candidly declares that given its interest in keeping U.S. government communications secure, it is loath to see quantum computers built. On the other hand, if they can be built, then it wants to have the first one.”

    Prof Seth Lloyd of MIT, MIT Review 2008

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  • “Given today’s common hardware and software architectural paradigms, operating systems security is a major primitive for secure systems – you will not succeed without it. This area is so important that it needs all the emphasis it can get. It is the current ‘black hole’ of security.”

    Brian Snow, Former Technical Director of the US National Security Agency (NSA), "We need assurance!", 1999-2008

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  • "Many crypto-systems considered robust have been broken after a certain amount of time (between 10-20 years).  ... We need to build crypto-systems that offer long term security, for example for protecting financial and medical information (medical information such as our DNA may be sensitive information with impact on our children, our grandchildren and beyond)."

    SecurIST, “D3.3 – ICT Security & Dependability Research beyond 2010: Final Strategy”, January 2007

     

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bibliography: NATO
Organisation: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
Synaptic Laboratories:

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.
NATO Conference:

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.)
About NATO:

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 Fact:

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

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]
Keywords: NATO, smart grid, cybersecurity, defence
Websites:

http://www.nato.int/
See also: US President's 60 day cyberspace policy review
IBE enabling ubiquitous uptake of encryption
Behavioural Trust and Identity

Last Updated on Sunday, 06 June 2010 08:45