Secure Messaging Solution to be Featured at IEEE Homeland Security Symposium outside Boston

WASHINGTON, March 26, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During a time of crisis, effective communication can mean the difference between the preservation of life, health and property or the loss thereof.

A secure and modern messaging solution that can help in times of crises will be presented at the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST '15) at the Westin Waltham (Mass.) Boston 14-16 April 2015. http://ieee-hst.org/

As opposed to email or text messaging, "Lua" allows organizations to share encrypted messages, files and photos in a secure, for-your-eyes-only environment and have real-time conference calls. It also enables one to know exactly who has read a message or viewed a file, and when.

"I think what we do a great job at is really [shortening] the life cycle of a task and speeding up the decision-making process. It's a much more transparent way to work," Lua founder and CEO Michael DeFranco said. You can "connect with your teams in real time no matter what device you're on."

HST '15 will for the 14^th time since 9/11 bring together leading industry, academic and government researchers and innovators working on technologies designed to improve homeland security in the United States and abroad. The early registration discount expires Friday 27 March. http://ieee-hst.org/registration/registration.html

DeFranco designed Lua after working with a software company that was performing relief efforts following the devastation of New Orleans and surrounding area from Hurricane Katrina.

Juliette Kayyem, a former Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary of intergovernmental affairs and founder of Juliette Kayyem Solutions, said something like Lua is needed to help manage major crises.

"The capacity to relate information and relate good information in a secure, fast, mobile environment is simply not where we need it to be," Kayyem said. "And Lua, by its capacity to create groupings, merge conversations, communicate and know who has gotten the message is just the very thing that's needed in crisis situations, but also outside of the crisis situation."

DeFranco and Kayyem made their comments recently on the ScienceNews Radio Network program The Promise of Tomorrow with Colonel Mason. http://www.promiseoftomorrow.biz/. You can listen to the entire interview at http://www.promiseoftomorrow.biz/audio/032415/partone.mp3

HST '15 is produced by IEEE with technical support from DHS S&T, IEEE Boston Section (www.ieeeboston.org), IEEE Biometrics Council and IEEE-USA. MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Raytheon, Battelle and MITRE are providing organizational support.

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