Deep-Secure Ltd’s Business Development Manager Colin Nash has been selected to receive the prestigious 2010 Meritorious Service Award by AFCEA[1] at next week’s TechNet International (28-29 October) in London, UK. After being presented with the award, Colin will be addressing delegates at the ‘Integrating Cyberspace into Battlespace’ event, showcasing the work conducted with Transglobal Secure Collaboration Programme (TSCP) in securing the Defence Supply Chain.
The two day long conference held at The Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in London, is organised by AFCEA and will focus on the operational and technical challenges that face today’s battlespace commanders as they seek to establish a balance between bytes versus bullets and bombs.
After a 25 year career in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and retiring as a Captain in 1996, Colin worked at QinetiQ, formerly DERA, and for five years managed its Information Security Consultancy Business where he was involved in a range of projects that covered high security work in both the Defence and Public Services Sectors.
Colin said: “I am delighted to be selected to receive such a prestigious industry award and to be able to address the delegates at TechNet with our latest work in the Cyber Security arena. At Deep-Secure we have a proven track record within the strictest data security environments including UK Ministry of Defence, Security Services, Government and commercial networks carrying business or client-sensitive data. We are passionate about our contribution to this industry and it’s extremely rewarding to receive such an accolade.”
Speaking about Colin’s award, President and CEO of AFCEA International Kent Schneider said: “Congratulations on this special recognition, we are extremely fortunate to have you on the AFCEA team - it is the dedication and commitment of members like you who make our work here at Headquarters rewarding - and fun! We look forward to congratulating you in person.”
Following his award presentation Colin will be addressing the delegates to showcase the work conducted with TSCP in securing the Defence Supply Chain through the use of Secure Email and the Deep-Secure Mail and Directory Guards.
The presentation is based on the work with UK MOD during the summer at CWID2010 which offered secure information exchange between a CWID[2] notional ‘UK Restricted’ domain (UK MoD) and a number of external domains which were connected through the Internet. These included BAE Systems TSCP Test Lab in the UK, US CWID at Dahlgren, Certipath in the US and the Deep-Secure Test Lab in the UK. Certipath provided the TSCP Federal Bridge to allow cross certification of PKI certificates.
Speaking about his forthcoming talk Colin said: “The TechNet presentation will share how the Guard was constructed to meet the PKI requirements and TSCP specification for secure email and what was achieved during the demonstration at CWID.
“It will show how labelled, signed and encrypted information was securely exchanged between Warfighters and simulated Embassies, NGOs and the Provisional Police as part of the CWID scenarios. It will outline the use cases carried out to achieve the collective identified aims to support the operational command requirements to provide secure interoperability and the community interests in building a secure collaborative environment appropriately protected within Cyberspace.”
TechNet International is one of a number of high profile industry events that Deep-Secure contribute to throughout the year. Last month it showcased its high-assurance guard XMPP Chat Sessions during the NATO Information Assurance Symposium in Belgium, demonstrated its ground-breaking Web (HTTP) and Chat (XMPP) Guard at TSCP’s Business Week event in Washington DC and earlier on in the year it demonstrated and tested its Email Boundary Guard compliant with the TSCP specification at the MoD CWID.
