Synaptic Laboratories Website Executive Summary

One of President Barack Obama’s first acts on becoming President was to order a comprehensive review of cyber security in the USA.  When presenting the subsequent report, the President's public statement on the universal nature of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems and future requirements can be summarised as follows:

ICT is the critical enabler of our modern standard of living and way of life (used in virtually everything). Existing ICT systems do not offer the security and dependability that matches their essential nature.  Consequently, our entire modern way of life is at risk. It is essential that ICT systems evolve to offer similar levels of assurance as found today in coal mines and aerospace.

Since the Report was published, the essential requirements for future ICT systems have been studied and the hard open problems published in major Government initiatives in the USA, Europe and elsewhere.

Synaptic Laboratories Limited has been an active participant in several of these major initiatives, including participation at the ‘by invitation only’ USA National Cyber Security Summit (NITRD NCLY) that followed the USA President’s cyber review.  Synaptic Labs designs universal ICT platforms and models that resolve many of the critical hard open security problems that exist across today's ICT systems, including in computing platforms, identity management, and much more.

To provide one example, Synaptic Labs (public and private) cloud computing model (TruSIP) offers advanced security controls against covert storage / timing channel attacks, and a wide range of side-channel attacks mounted by both outsiders and privileged insiders.  Insiders explicitly include the cloud provider's technical and managerial staff, as well as all insiders involved in design, implementation and maintenance of the components used in that cloud deployment.  As of 2011, our proposal is over 10+ million times faster than our nearest competitor, IBM's Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).  The U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency will invest USD 20 million research over 5 years with the goal of reducing the performance of FHE from 10+ million times slower down to 100 thousand times slower than unencrypted computation.  By way of comparison, TruSIP's commercially relevant performance is estimated at only 2.5x - 3.5x slower than unencrypted computation.