Ned Smith is an active contributor to the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) and chairs the Security, Privacy and Identity working group in the IPSO Alliance. He has several publications on topics that include trusted computing, full disk encryption, virtualization of trusted computing modules, manageability, identity management, enhanced privacy identifiers, IoT using blockchain. He chaired the Infrastructure working group (IWG) and Trusted Network Connect (TNC) group in the TCG. He holds more than 120 patents.