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With research and academic partners from the FutureTPM, ASTRID, CUREX and SECONDO H2020 European co-funded research projects, UBITECH co-organizes the 1st Workshop on Dependability and Safety Emerging Cloud and Fog Systems(DeSECSys) that will take place in September 17-18, 2020, in Guildford, United Kingdom, co-located with the 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2020).

Given that information security and privacy have already been established as some of the most crucial aspects of technology especially in a world that is migrating to digital applications by the day, this has inevitably led to the emergence of technologies that support the safety and dependability of the ever-increasing sensitive data handled by these applications. Additionally, besides these technologies which target security by their design, there are other technologies, such as machine learning, which could potentially be applied to security in innovative schemes. The goal of the DeSECSys workshop is to foster collaboration and discussion among cyber-security researchers and practitioners to discuss the various applications, opportunities and possible shortcomings of these technologies and their integration. Effectively the DeSECSys workshop aims to produce a collection of state-of-the-art research about emerging security technologies, their applications, their shortcomings and their verification with a focus on their uncompromised, in terms of security, safety and dependability, integration.

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Twelve members of UBITECH team, including Software Engineers, Web Developers, UI/UX Experts, Data Scientists, Mobile Developers and Blockchain Engineers, have submitted the CovIDpass idea and proof-of-concept at the online hackathon of Global Hack, entitled “Fight for our Future” (https://theglobalhack.devpost.com/), that takes place on April 9-12, 2020 and attracted more than 6,000 individuals submitting more than 1,000 ideas. CovIDpass proposes a privacy-preserving and secure infrastructure for the issuance and validation of the COVID-19 Immunity Certificate of citizens, enabling their mobility across different countries.

As COVID-19 is rapidly spreading across the globe, more restrictions on cross-country travelling are being imposed, significantly disrupting the air transportations. Worldwide public health safety restrictions have grounded more than 80% of flights, leading the industry and populations’ movement in unprecedented turbulence. It is inevitable that these strict policies are going to gradually transform into a system that incoming passengers will be obliged to prove their health status. Therefore, a global standardized COVID-19 immunity certification will be asked before boarding, as the humanity needs to ensure that in the post-COVID crisis era, people may move between countries in an objectively riskless fashion, both for themselves as well as for the public safety.

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UBITECH is participating at the kick-off e-meeting (March 27, 2020) of the TheFSM Innovation Action , officially started on February 1st, 2020. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 871703) and spans on the period February 2020 – January 2023. The vision of the TheFSM project is to deliver an industrial data platform that will significantly boost the way that food certification takes place in Europe. The platform will facilitate the exchange and connection of data between different food safety actors, who are interested in sharing information critical to certification. The project is going to accelerate the pace by which this type of certification bodies (in Europe and beyond) adopt digital innovation and offer data-driven services. Eventually, TheFSM aspires to catalyse the digital evolution of the quite traditional but very data-intensive business ecosystem of global food certification.

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UBITECH participated in the experts panel in the first live webinar of the UPTIME H2020 project on 19 March 2020, as the technical coordinator and the UPTIME platform integrator. The UPTIME 1st Live Webinar highlighted the differences between classic preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance using historical data and real time dataas well as illustrated benefits of predictive maintenance by a concrete implementation in the White Goods Industry.

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Following a peer-review process, the Computer Networks international journal published by Elsevier has accepted to publish the scientific manuscript entitled “CYBELE – Fostering Precision Agriculture & Livestock Farming Through Secure Access to Large-Scale HPC Enabled Virtual Industrial Experimentation Environments Fostering Scalable Big Data Analytics”, that has been co-authored by UBITECH. In this paper, Konstantinos Perakis and his co-authors introduce CYBELE, a platform aspiring to safeguard that the stakeholders involved in the agri-food value chain (research community, SMEs, entrepreneurs, etc.) have integrated, unmediated access to a vast amount of very large scale datasets of diverse types and coming from a variety of sources, and that they are capable of actually generating value and extracting insights out of these data, by providing secure and unmediated access to large-scale High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures supporting advanced data discovery, processing, combination and visualization services, solving computationally-intensive challenges modelled as mathematical algorithms requiring very high computing power and capability.

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The final contractual review meeting for the ANASTACIA H2020 co-funded research project (http://www.anastacia-h2020.eu) with external reviewers and project officer from the EC side took place in Brussels on February 19, 2020. The ANASTACIA consortium successfully presented the results of the work of the project at the final 18 months of project. ANASTACIA consortium developed a trustworthy-by-design security framework which address security in all the phases of the ICT Systems Development Lifecycle (SDL) that is able to take autonomous decisions through the use of new networking technologies such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), continuous security monitoring, and intelligent and dynamic security enforcement. During the review meeting, the ANASTACIA consortium demonstrated how the ANASTACIA framework had protected a Smart Building from various adversaries and attacks using compromised devices, and how it had provided a holistic framework for security by-design suitable for Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) based on IoT and Cloud architectures. UBITECH was leading the integration and testing activities of the ANASTACIA project, and developed a highly scalable data filtering mechanism for collecting and aggregating all security logs.

The first contractual review meeting for the InteropEHRate H2020 co-funded research project (https://www.interopehrate.eu/) took place in Luxembourg on February 13, 2020. InteropEHRate aims to support peoples’ health by opening them up new ways to make health data available where needed. To make this possible, key health data is managed in “patients’ hands”, i.e. through Smart EHRs (S-EHR) on mobile devices. Data is always transferred via highly secure channels including a direct device-to-device. The InteropEHRate consortium successfully presented the results of the work of the project during the first 12 months of project. UBITECH, as the leader of health record security and privacy protocols of the project, presented the security and privacy mechanisms adopted in InteropEHRate for both the remote and device-to-device protocols. These mechanisms include two variants for identity management (one of them utilizes qualified digital signatures for eIDAS regulation compliance), double-signed consent management and pluggable authentication based on Keycloak Identity and Access Management.

A scientific paper entitled “Toward the 6G Network Era: Opportunities and Challenges” has been co-authored by University of Patras, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, EULAMBIA and UBITECH, and is published at the IEEE IT Professional Magazine (vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 34-38). In this paper, Dr Dimitris Klonidis and his co-authors discuss the transformation and convergence of the fifth-generation (5G) mobile network and the internet of things technologies, toward the emergence of the smart sixth-generation (6G) networks which will employ AI to optimize and automate their operation.

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The second and final contractual review meeting for the PrEstoCloud H2020 co-funded research project took (https://prestocloud-project.eu) place in Brussels on February 6, 2020. The PrEstoCloud consortium has successfully presented the results of the work of the project at the final 18 months of project. UBITECH developed and integrated a highly efficient security mechanism for Cloud and Edge devices and provided a toolkit for networking connectivity with end-to-end encryption for Cloud and Edge devices, even on the go, based on latest mesh networking advancements. UBITECH, who constitutes the integrator of PrEstoCloud, has supported the three pilot organizations to demonstrate PrEstoCloud in three diverse use cases, i.e. Video Surveillance, Logistics and Mobile Journalism, taking the initiative for the creation of an assistive web-based user interface that ease users to achieve elastic deployments for processing data at both Cloud and Edge.

UBITECH is hosting the kick-off meeting, in Athens, Greece (February 5-6, 2020), of the RAINBOW Research and Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2020. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 871403) and spans on the period January 2020 – December 2022. The vision of the RAINBOW is to design and develop an open and trusted fog computing platform that facilitates the deployment and management of scalable, heterogeneous and secure IoT services and cross-cloud applications (i.e, microservices). RAINBOW falls within the bigger vision of delivering a platform enabling users to remotely control the infrastructure that is running, potentially, on hundreds of edge devices (e.g., wearables), thousands of fog nodes in a factory building or flying in the sky (e.g., drones), and millions of vehicles travelling in a certain area or across Europe.

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