Consortium for Secure Cyber Collaboration Launched Amsterdam, September 30th, 2013

By the end of September, a Consortium has been officially launched aiming to

bridge the gap between the business principle of Need-to-Share and the

security principle of Need-to-Know. The Consortium was founded by Elisabeth

de Leeuw, CEO of IdTopIQ LLC and unites members from public sector, science

and business.

The founding of the Consortium is a result of research and development in the

last couple of years, performed by Elisabeth de Leeuw. In her role as security

consultant, she observed the growing and sheer unbridgeable gap between

the business principle of Need-to-Share and the security principle of Need-to-

Know:

The principle of Need-to-Know caused NSA, CIA, FBI to fail. A main criticism

on NSA, CIA and the FBI has been their failure to effectively share and

analyze available data prior to 9/11. Putting two and two together, the

attacks could have been averted.

The principle of Need-to-Share poses a threat to national security. After

the 9/11 attacks, a trend of information-sharing between intelligence

agencies has been initiated in the United States. However, concern about

leakers (WikiLeaks!) will likely reverse this trend.

In order to solve this problem, Elisabeth designed an innovative Security

Model, named MDAC. The acronym MDAC stands for Multi-Dimensional

Access Control.

The MDAC System, yet to be built by the newly founded Consortium,

facilitates directed, non-pervasive and non-persistent sharing of information,

in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. The MDAC system is

based on the MDAC Security Model. The Greek character stands for the

golden ratio. The in MDAC symbolizes the balance between the principles

Need-to-Know and Need-to-Share created by this system.

The Consortium has found two organizations prepared to act as Launching

Customer for the yet-to-be-developed MDAC System. However, in order to

protect their business, these organizations have requested to not include their

names in this press release.

Members of the Consortium are:

Delft University of Technology, represented by prof. dr. Frances M.T.

Brazier

ngCompliance LLC, represented by Marco Dubbeld, CEO

TIG LLC (Technology Investment Group), represented by Hans Arnold, CEO

TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research),

represented by Rieks Joosten, senior researcher

University of Amsterdam, prof. dr. Jan A. Bergstra

The Consortium will be active as of January 2nd, 2014 and will be led by

CyberTopIQ LLC, a subsidiary of IdTopIQ LLC.