2006/07/15: Adventium Labs, along with prime contractor Red Phone Security, Inc. of St. Paul, MN announce the win of a phase I SBIR contract from the US Navy to develop a cross-domain RSS router.

2006/06/06: The Process Control System Forum held their Spring 2006 workshop in San Diego the first week of June. The focus of the workshop was to drive the cyber security solutions for control systems closer to reality. Brian Isle leads the SCADA Cyber Security Requirements Working Group (SCySAG) for PCSF and was a member of the workshop design committee. Brian presented an overview of the SCySAg activities to the 100+ attendees and lead the working meeting dealing with cyber security requirements for the control systems.

2006/05/02: Todd Carpenter presented a snapshot of Adventium’s vulnerability and risk assessment and mitigation work at Red Team 2006 at Sandia Labs, Albuquerque, a government-wide event which focused on improvement of adversarial-based assessments including variants such as red teaming, blue teaming, vulnerability assessment, risk assessment, etc., as applied for issues analysis and across the lifecycle of systems from concept, R&D, prototype, deployment, and operation, through consideration of physical, cyber, CBRNE, and other threats. Dual themes, "Strategic to Tactical" and "Theory to Practice," were represented as cross cutting concepts in this conference. Red teaming has applied for strategic reasons that give long-term benefits to a system; however, we’ve seen an increased introduction of red teaming into both tactical military operations and situation analysis that we also wish to highlight at this event. The conference attempted to maintain a balance between the near-term issues of practicing red teaming today with the more theoretical work being done to improve that state of practice.

2006/03/14: Kyle Nelson presented a review of the 2003 NSF SCADA Workshop he helped organize at the Beyond SCADA: Networked Embedded Control Systems Meeting was held on March 16 & 17, 2006 in Washington, D.C. It was coordinated by the National Information Technology Research and Development group (NITRD)'s High Confidence Systems and Software (HCSS) subcommittee, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National Security Agency. This meeting was the planning meeting for a larger meeting to be held at CMU in October 2006. This series of meetings will facilitate the roadmapping process for the research agenda in the area of Networked Embedded Control Systems.

2006/02/06: The Center for Strategic Information Technology and Security, a Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Center of Excellence, has named Kyle Nelson to its board of advisors. The mission of the Center is to help individuals and organizations acquire the knowledge and skills needed to create and maintain competitive information and communication systems that are driven by sound business strategy and employ best practices in total security.

2005/12/10: Adventium Labs employees continued their 3-year long commitment to encourage and foster high-tech growth and education in Minnesota. Five Adventium employees judged 114 teams of 4th-9th grade student research and design projects at seven INSciTE sponsored First Lego League regional competitions held at metro area schools over three weekends in November and December 2005. These employees are also volunteering to judge at the state tournament held at Benilde St. Margaret's School on January 28th, 2006.

2005/12/09: Adventium researchers supported the 21st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, which attracted 206 attendees from 16 countries, representing goverment, industry and academia. Tom Haigh chaired a session on Defense-in-Depth and Database Security, while Charlie Payne served as Program Co-Chair and was a paper co-author with Steve Harp and colleagues from BBN Technologies and University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

2005/09/07: Adventium researchers were honored to participate in an invitation-only, closed-session briefing to the High Confidence Software and Systems (HCSS) Coordinating Group (CG) of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) . Adventium's presentation covered issues related to Secure, Open, Real-Time Operating Systems in a range of complex systems including cyber security, industrial process control, military combat vehicles, and implantable medical devices.

2005/08/18: Adventium Labs recently began a two-year project for HSARPA and 3Com to develop and deploy advanced cyber security technology to protect critical operations in water treatment, electrical power, petrochemical refining, and others of the Nation’s critical infrastructures. This project will develop technology that enables groups to securely operate within an organization and across enterprise boundaries, reduce the effects of malicious or careless insiders, and do so without degrading performance.