Logo for Swarm Logic - IT Security Company

We are currently rebranding and looking for someone to design something cool that embodies our organisation.

We are an IT security consultancy and are looking for something creative that is very different to the tradtional key/padlock/wall type thing. the brief provides good levels of detail of what we are after however if you have something different that may appeal feel free to put it forward

Swarm Logic - formerly GISG

Brief summary

Looking for logo as first part of company re-branding effort.

Brand name

Swarm-logic.com (previously known as GISG – http://www.gisg.com.au)

Description

Swarm-logic offers a range of information security services to medium to large organisations, including banks, government departments, educational institutions. swarm-logic are experts in security architecture and administration.

Our clients are typically senior IT managers, senior IT technical staff and board level management

The logo to be developed is to appeal to the target market; yet have a feeling of being approachable.

This logo will be used as a basis for a website redesign, email footers, business cards, etc so needs to be able to scale across different media and be printed. It should also use colours that we can use as the rest of a website and general corporate look and feel.

If an appropriate logo is designed we are open to the idea of having website design done via the same group/person

We are trying to produce a distinctly different look than traditional IT security providers

Logo which embodies the philosophy of Swarm Logic or Swarm Intelligence – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence
Something a bit creative and different – almost a film/advertising/creative industry type logo rather than traditional IT company logo

If you can add a catch phrase or similar that’s an added bonus.

Some ideas/inspirations

individual swarm agents working to a collective purpose
strength in a disaster
attention to detail
business professionalism
peace of mind
expertise
bulletproof
finger print scanner from Bourne Identity (bank vault scene) / Charlie's Angels (server room scene)
strong or dependable colours such as blues, gun-metal greys, greens, etc.
Something funky and modern.

We are looking to receive the logo in vector files - that is, scalable files that will not lose resolution when they are made larger, such as the raw Adobe Illustrator (.ai file) or equivalent, as well as eps, tiff, jpg, gif file formats

anything that looks like a padlock/shield/brick wall unless a very creative interpretation
animated, mascot-style entities
pastels, softness
anything cheesy
anything cartoony