Advancing Innovation Through Collaboration

Mission Statement:

In order to achieve and sustain an innovation advantage, our nation must support entrepreneurial efforts that advance security technologies in order to protect our command and control operating systems and overall security of our IT and Telecommunication critical infrastructures. Accordingly, the mission of the SINET is to:

• Accelerate knowledge transfer, identification, assessment and dissemination of "best of class" security solutions
• Foster collaboration through Public Private Partnerships, social networks and venues that enhance education and awareness across company and agency boundaries
• Analyze critical security policies and issues through an interdisciplinary compendium of think tanks
• Provide training and education programs

The Security Innovation Network™ (SINET) was created to increase collaboration between the United States public and private sectors with the mutual objective of accelerating innovation in security technology, practices and implementation. The SINET provides thought leadership and tools to create social and virtual links among persons and organizations involved with the technical, strategic, legal, economic, and policy aspects of IT security. In order for the United States to maintain an innovation advantage, creative and continuous collaboration is imperative between the people within public and private sectors from federal agencies, system integrators, innovators, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, academics and scientists. Our goal is to help these important groups within the US security community bridge knowledge and cultural gaps, forge ties and attain unity of purpose towards the advancement of IT security innovation.

The SINET is designed to create a demand pull environment through education, collaboration, access, knowledge transfer, technology transition and policy that leads to rapid identification, assessment, evaluation and integration of "best of class" IT security solutions.

To achieve its mission, the SINET is comprised of three inter-related entities, each with a distinct and essential purpose: The Security Trust, The Security Exchange and the IT Security Forum. These sub-organizations will operate in an integrated, leveraged fashion in support of the SINET.

The SINET will be supported by public and private sponsorship gifts and foundation and government grants.

• Foster collaboration through Public Private Partnerships, social networks & venues that enhance education & awareness across company and agency boundaries

• The SINET Showcase takes public-private sector collaboration to a new level, as we look to identify the ‘best in class’ cyber security technologies, and match them with the most pressing needs of the Federal civilian, defense, and intelligence agencies and the commercial sector.
• The ideal opportunity for emerging companies with cyber products of the highest merit to be evaluated, seen, and noticed by an audience of representatives from private industry, Federal Government, system integration, research, and the venture capital communities.

• Accelerate knowledge transfer, rapid identification, assessment & dissemination of "best of class" security solutions

• Analyze critical security policies and issues through an interdisciplinary compendium of think tanks
• Provide training and education programs