Phoenix, AZ — October 29, 2025

Secure Micro Technologies is hosting a half-day Workshop on Cybersecurity Best Practices for Critical Infrastructure at the PhoenixNAP Conference Center. As IT and OT systems converge, the need for robust, hardware-based cybersecurity is more urgent than ever.

This hands-on event will cover:
- Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) transitions
- Crypto-agile strategies for OT/IT lifecycle alignment
- Secure boot, PUFs, data diodes, and network segmentation
- Real-world case studies and technical labs

Ideal for: Utility engineers, ICS professionals, cybersecurity staff, and modernization teams.

Greg Burns brings more than fifteen years of experience in program management, quality management, proposal management, process development, manufacturing management, account management, and team development within the US defense industrial base. Greg spent the majority of his career at Northrop Grumman Corporation. Most notably, he served as the Mission Assurance Manager and a key member of the Senior Leadership Team for the company's GMD Program.

As the Managing Director of Secure Micro Technologies, Greg oversees all programs and personnel, including program development, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain management, to guarantee compliance with internal guidelines and customer agreements. He implements organizational procedures and systems that adhere to industry standards and meet client needs. Furthermore, he is tasked with leading the development of new initiatives, managing their budgeting, collecting technical requirements, and negotiating contracts.

Greg's record demonstrates his skill in fostering unity among employees and teams, as well as nurturing their skills to advance their professional growth. In his role, he leverages his ability to inspire and rally team members towards a shared objective.

Greg has previously held positions at Abrams Airborne, serving as the Regional Account Manager, as well as positions at Honeywell and Rogers Corporation. Additionally, he served in the Arizona Air National Guard from 1982 to 2002. Greg is a graduate of Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science degree.

We are pleased to welcome Greg and his exceptional leadership abilities to Secure Micro Technologies.

Secure Micro Technologies is launching our latest network monitoring and segmentation technology. The new data diode connector allows hardware-enabled one-way communication with real-time packet capture and analysis.

This technology enhances cyber threat management for critical systems by offering non-interactive monitoring, in-network traffic analysis, and event-triggered self-reconfiguration.

This innovative data diode technology allows secure one-way communication using fiber-optic connections, ensuring data cannot be sent back. It creates an airgap between trusted and untrusted network sections with isolated communication and configuration interfaces.

It offers the most robust assurances to date in terms of isolating outdated systems, healthcare equipment, and essential infrastructure from consumer-based information technology (IT).

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We are thrilled to welcome Heather R. Kinsy as our new President. Her outstanding leadership and expertise will be invaluable in guiding Secure Micro Technologies through its next phase of growth and development.

As a fast-growing technology company, we must demonstrate growth-focused managerial strategies. This is exactly what Heather brings. She is excited to lead our talented team and build on the company's strong foundation, capitalize on new opportunities, and chart a path of sustained success.

Heather has a more than twenty-year career spanning management consulting and industry. Previously held roles include Director, Account Management overseeing observational Patient Registries at IQVIA and Principal Consultant leading critical projects as a trusted advisor for Life Sciences and BioPharma organizations at Systems Evolution, Inc. Heather holds a Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University, and many professional certifications.

As a Co-Founder and a leader, Heather welcomes feedback, is willing to iterate on ideas and focuses on finding the best path forward for collective success. We look forward to an era of continued growth, innovation, and success under Heather's leadership.

Legacy electronics in many critical systems and infrastructures are a fertile ground for cyber attacks and represent a core vulnerability in our national security posture.

Bulwark is a hardware module with flexible interfaces that can be used as a protective shield for another electronic device. It enables the design of device-oblivious secure network architecture with programmable access control and authentication parameters. We have a tool for users to specify the composition and enforcement of their defined secure and access rules at a device’s interface.

Bulwark advances what engineers can do in terms of legacy embedded systems and critical infractures modernization. For example, with Bulwark, you can completely decouple the externally observable I/O from the legacy system native I/O. Therefore, providing a strong cyber shielding from the legacy system. The Bulwark's reconfigurable fabric enables (1) minimization of any communication transformation latency and (2) custom hardware root-of-trust policies implementation.

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Secure Micro Technologies has released its next-generation mobile hybrid cyber range platform, The Pioneer™, the latest version in its SMT-CyberRange™ series, for complete cybersecurity solution design, testing, education, and training for critical infrastructures.

A unique feature of The Pioneer™ is its Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) modality support. It enables the integration of various Internet of Things (IoT) devices and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems into the testing environments. It opens up the range of critical infrastructures (e.g., power grid systems, industrial systems) that can be simulated or emulated or tested with high-fidelity.

The Pioneer™ has all the capabilities of traditional cloud-based cyber ranges in addition to supporting hardware-in-the-loop modalities - ICS/PLC/SCADA – for high-fidelity coverage of security modalities comprising critical infrastructure operational technology (OT). It aids in the analysis of physical/hardware versus pure cyber cybersecurity vectors, and serves as a testbed for securing the IoT devices or supporting mobile tactical ad hoc networks.

We are a leader in post-quantum cryptosystem acceleration. Some of our team members were performers on the NIST PQC Competition and have been part of the multi-year evolution process.

Secure Micro Technologies' Crypto Team design and formally-verified post-quantum accelerator. We do algorithm analysis. We design highly-optimized, parameterizable hardware modules for post-quantum algorithms and application acceleration and their cryptanalysis.

Our post-quantum hardware primitives support the four frequently used security application domains: the public key cryptosystem (PKC), key exchange (KEX), oblivious transfer (OT), and zero-knowledge proof (ZKP).

The PKC and KEX form the basis of most modern cryptographic systems. The OT is used in many privacy-preserving applications, e.g., DNA database query and private machine learning. Similarly, ZKP is used in a number of applications, such as a potential candidate for the next generation of blockchain algorithms.

In addition to our proprietary highly optimized, fully verified, and fully parameterizable units, we have also worked with our academic collaborators to provide to the community an open-source hardware library that includes the synthesizable and parameterizable RTL code with efficient N-point Number-Theoretic Transform (NTT) modules for fast polynomial multiplications.

Kelly Xu is a recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering and a minor in Economics.

Kelly is very passionate about innovation. She has prior experience in a range of roles, including processor design, FPGA development, and software as a technology analyst. She also has knowledge in biology, having worked as a researcher and biomedical scientist performing data analysis.

Kelly will contribute to our secure processor design projects. She will lead the design, implementation, testing, and integration efforts of the floating point unit. She will assist in our post-quantum hardware security module design and trustworthy AI accelerator design efforts.

Kelly is planning on returning to MIT for a Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science next year.