The SSL team has headed to Austin, Texas, for Unify 2026, the premier public event hosted by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA). SSL is a co-sponsor, alongside Keyfactor, of this year’s conference, which brings together more than 50 speakers and 20-plus sessions over two days, with keynotes, panels, and live interoperability demos.
They’re bringing you the latest news, insights, and the discussions we’re hearing between sessions that are driving the power and potential of open standards in the Internet of Things.
Our daily journal, straight from the exhibit floor at the Hilton Austin, is compiled by our boots-on-the-ground team, including Dom Guinard, Director of Product – Content Authenticity and IoT, and Leo Grove, President and CEO of SSL.
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
From Dustin Ward, SSL EVP of Technology:
Most of the conversation around connected devices is about features and interoperability. The part I keep coming back to is identity. Every Matter device needs a credential it can actually prove, and every one of those credentials traces back to a chain of trust that someone has to operate at scale.
At SSL, we run public CA infrastructure, and the hard problems facing IoT right now look strikingly familiar to us. Device attestation. Certificate lifecycle across millions of endpoints. What happens when post-quantum migration meets hardware that ships and stays in the field for a decade? These are the same questions and concerns we’re already solving for the web.
If you are building device identity, attestation, or trust infrastructure for connected products, I want to compare notes while I’m here. Find me on the Unify exhibit floor at Table 15 or message me via LinkedIn.
From Dom Guinard, Director of Product – Content Authenticity and IoT:
Dom and Keyfactor’s Guillaume Crinon, Director, IoT Business Strategy, offer a sneak peek of the demo we’re presenting on the Unify exhibit floor.
This journal updates daily throughout the week of Unify 2026. Check back tomorrow for Day 2 coverage, and follow us on LinkedIn for real-time highlights from the event locations.
If your business focuses on smart home and voice-integrated product development, energy management systems, or traditional smart switches and sensors, connect with the SSL team to learn how we can help.
