UBITECH participates in the kick-off meeting, in Nicosia, Cyprus (October 24, 2018) of the PERSONAS Cypriot research project, officially started on October 2nd, 2018. The project is co-funded by the “Research in Enterprises” action of the multi-annual development framework of Programmes RESTART 2016-2020 for the support of Research, Technological Development and Innovation in Cyprus (Grant Agreement No. ENTERPRISES/0916/0063) and spans on the period October 2018 – September 2020. The PERSONAS project leverages virtualization for offering additional security to the end-user, providing a device independent, user-centric and self-adaptive security system, able to cope with the concept of seamless working experience on different devices, in which a user may start a session on a device and location and follow up the process on different devices and locations, without corporate or personal digital asset loss – delivering an agile personalized system, which, based on the context, enables different features for increased security on individuals and corporate devices.
Main features include: (i) enable automation of software virtualization for protecting different types of corporate and personal data based on an active context, and (ii) assist individual users and organizations manage data security processes and related policies more effectively while maintaining a sufficient level of user awareness and control of any automated decisions made by computing devices. The key technological concepts and artefacts comprising the proposed PERSONAS framework and constituting its unique selling points are described below:
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