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Dr Thanassis Giannetsos, Head of UBITECH’s Digital Security & Trusted Computing Research Group, gives an interview about the CONNECT Horizon Europe project and its challenges. CONNECT addresses the convergence of security and safety in CCAM (Cooperative, connected and automated mobility) by assessing dynamic trust relationships and defining a trust reasoning framework based on which involved entities can establish trust for cooperatively executing safety-critical functions.

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The paper entitled “Combining ID’s, Attributes, and Policies in Hyperledger Fabric” has been accepted for presentation at the 2nd EAI International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Emerging Applications (EAI BlockTEA 2022), that will be held in October 20-21, 2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In this work, UBITECH’s Dr Thanassis Giannetsos (Head, Digital Security & Trusted Computing Research Group) and his co-authors from Delft University of Technology proposes a more secure access control in Hyperledger Fabric blockchain by combining multiple ID’s, attributes, and policies with the components that regulate access control.

Continue reading UBITECH presents a scientific paper on secure access control in blockchain at the EAI BlockTEA 2022

The paper entitled “ID-based self-encryption via Hyperledger Fabric based smart contract” has been accepted for presentation at the 2nd EAI International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Emerging Applications (EAI BlockTEA 2022), that will be held in October 20-21, 2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In this work, UBITECH’s Dr Thanassis Giannetsos (Head, Digital Security & Trusted Computing Research Group) and his co-authors from Delft University of Technology presents a prototype of a Hyperledger Fabric-IPFS based network architecture including a smart contract based encryption scheme that meant to improve the security of user’s data that is being up[1]loaded to the distributed ledger. A new extension to the self-encryption scheme was deployed by integrating data owner’s identity into the encryption process. Such integration allows to permanently preserve ownership of the original file and link it to the person/entity who originally uploaded it. Moreover, self-encryption provides strong security guarantees that decryption of a file is computationally not feasible under the condition that the encrypted file and the key are safely stored.

Continue reading UBITECH presents a scientific paper on smart contract-based self-encryption at the EAI BlockTEA 2022

The first review of the ELECTRON H2020-101021936 project (https://electron-project.eu/) was successfully held by the European Commission on the 17th of October 2022, assessing project’s goal towards empowering resilience of energy systems. The project has successfully completed the first reporting period that included the activities of the initial 12 months of the project (out of its 36-month total duration).

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Konstantinos Oikonomou, Software Engineer and Research at the Computing Systems, Software and Services Research Group of UBITECH, was invited to participate in the “SWForum.eu Webinar: Leveraging OS technologies for better services in the European software ecosystem”, which will be held online on the 10th of October 2022. Leveraging existing technologies and services, the SWForum.eu aims to raise awareness and strengthen the competitiveness of the European Software Industry by facilitating a sustainable European forum that encourages both researchers and practitioners, as well as projects in software, digital infrastructure, and cybersecurity to create intersections of expertise and a multidisciplinary approach to research and innovation.

Continue reading UBITECH’s Konstantinos Oikonomou talks about Open Source technologies for better services at SWForum.eu webinar

UBITECH participats at the virtual kick-off meeting hosted by CERTH (October 7, 2022) of the Ceasefire Innovation Action, officially started on October 1st, 2022. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101073876) and spans on the period October 2022 – September 2025. Ceasefire targets the development of a highly innovative, holistic, multi-disciplinary, high-tech and versatile approach for significantly increasing/broadening the operational capabilities of EU Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) in their struggle to detect, analyze and track cross-border illicit firearms trafficking related activities.

Continue reading UBITECH participates at the kick off meeting of the Ceasefire Innovation Action on AI technologies for combating illicit firearms trafficking

UBITECH hosts the kick-off meeting in Athens, Greece (October 6-7, 2022) of the REWIRE Research and Innovation Action, officially started on October 1st, 2022. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101070627) and spans on the period October 2022 – September 2025. REWIRE envisions a holistic framework for continuous security assessment of open-source and open-specification hardware and software for IoT devices and the development of cybersecurity certification in accordance with the requirements and guidelines of recent EU Cybersecurity Act.

Continue reading UBITECH undertakes the project management and technical coordination of the REWIRE Research and Innovation Action on compositional security verification and assurance

UBITECH participats at the kick-off meeting hosted by Engineering Ingegneria Informatica spa in Palermo, Italy (October 3-4, 2022) of the TALON Research and Innovation Action, officially started on October 1st, 2022. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101070181) and spans on the period October 2022 – September 2025. TALON aims at sculpturing the road towards the next industrial revolution by developing a fully-automated AI architecture capable of bringing intelligence near the edge in a flexible, adaptable, explainable, energy and data efficient manner.

Continue reading UBITECH participates at the kick off meeting of the TALON Research and Innovation Action on autonomous, self-organized AI orchestration

The EC co-funded 5G-INDUCE project has successfully completed its mid-term progress review process on the 29th of September. The partners have highlighted the key achievements of the project in the fields of a) the service oriented 5G-INDUCE NetApp orchestration platform, b) the NetApp based use cases for Industry 4.0 verticals and c) the deployment of the industrial 5G testing infrastructures in Spain, Italy and Greece with operator grade 5G connectivity. Positive feedback has been received with respect to the achieved technical progress, and kind recommendations for promoting the exploitation potentials of the project to unfold its full potentials in the emerging 5G industrial service deployment sector.

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UBITECH hosts, in Athens, Greece, the kick-off meeting (September 22-23, 2022) of the CONNECT Research and Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2022. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101069688) and spans on the period September 2022 – August 2025. CONNECT addresses the convergence of security and safety in CCAM by assessing dynamic trust relationships and defining a trust reasoning framework based on which involved entities can establish trust for cooperatively executing safety-critical functions. This will enable both a) cyber-secure data sharing between data sources in the CCAM ecosystem that had no or insufficient pre-existing trust relationship, and b) outsourcing tasks to the MEC and cloud in a trustworthy way.

Continue reading UBITECH undertakes the technical coordination of the CONNECT Research and Innovation Action on CCAM trust and resilience