Duality Technologies announced that Adm. Michael Rogers (ret.), former commander of the United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and chief of the Central Security Service (CSS), has joined the Duality esteemed board of advisors.Â
"I am excited to join Duality's advisory board to support the company's mission of delivering advanced data protection capabilities that enable organizations in public and private sectors to collaborate on their sensitive data. Collaboration requires trust, safety and security and technology must support these values in the world of exponentially growing data and strengthening AI and machine-learning", said Adm. Rogers.
Adm. Rogers has dedicated his government and public service career to cybersecurity and privacy and brings decades of command leadership in service to the national cyber security missions of the United States and its allied nations. His tenure coupled with that of Duality's founders, who make up some of the foremost leaders in advanced cryptography and data science, further strengthen the company's commitment to transform the way organizations collaborate on their sensitive data.
"We are delighted to welcome to our advisory board Adm. Rogers, who has dedicated his government career to cyber defense and security," said Rina Shainski, Duality's chairwoman and co-founder. "Adm. Rogers has a deep-rooted understanding of how data, privacy and security intersect and shares the importance of Duality's mission to advance privacy-enabled data collaboration in all regulated industries," added Shainski.
Adm. Rogers will collaborate with Duality to expedite the deployment of their advanced data collaboration and privacy-preserving technologies to address national security challenges and those of other regulated industries, such as financial services and healthcare. Duality's products are powered by OpenFHE (openfhe.org), the leading open source Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) library, that has been developed with years of ongoing funding from leading R&D agencies, including DARPA, the premier technology funding agency in the United States.
Adm. Rogers will also work with Duality to educate government regulators and standards bodies on the needs for strong privacy technologies to protect the best interests of citizens and government. Duality's core team has decades of experience developing and deploying privacy technologies in support of national security objectives, enabling unmatched ability for highly efficient computations on encrypted data to address the security demands of the US Government, financial services, healthcare organizations and in general commercial applications.
"Following our history of success with government privacy technology initiatives and with government financial and healthcare agencies, we at Duality continue to enable privacy-enhanced data collaborations in public and private sectors. We are excited to work with Adm. Rogers in expanding our activities in the government sector, and it speaks to the trust government leaders have in our team", said Kurt Rohloff, Duality Technologies Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder.
For more information on Duality and Adm. Rogers' vision on trust and security in data collaborations – please listen to this interview.