UBITECH continues its successful participation in the H2020 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, with the award of top ranked proposals at European level (ARCADIA, INPUT, PaaSword, FALCON, ENTROPY, SUBSOL, SAGE-CARE), as highlighted in a recent report published by the Greek National Documentation Centre (Greek National Contact Point for H2020), entitled “Greek Participation in the Information and Communication Technologies Programme of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, 2014-2015 Work Programme”. In particular, UBITECH ranks 5th among all Greek SMEs in the “top organizations by funding” list concerning the ICT related grants in 2014-2015. In particular, UBITECH has successfully participated in the following ICT related funded research projects (that are taken into account in the aforementioned EKT report): PaaSword, ARCADIA and INPUT. For your convenience, you can download the GNDC report (in Greek) here.
UBITECH co-hosts the first Industrial Focus Group Workshop of the PaaSword H2020 project on privacy-by-design and Cloud security technologies
UBITECH invites you at the first industrial focus workshop of the PaaSword H2020 project on privacy-by-design and secure cloud technologies, entitled “No More Dark Clouds with the Data Privacy And Security By Design Platform-As-A Service”, which going to take place on November 10th, 2016 (10:00 – 15:00 Athens time) at the INNOVAATHENS – Hub of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Technopolis City of Athens.
UBITECH wins Best Demo Award at Cloud Forward Conference 2016
UBITECH is proud to be awarded with the Best Demo Award at Cloud Forward Conference 2016 (held in Madrid, Spain) – based on the votes of all those who attended the demo session. In the course of the SME Event and Demonstrations session of Cloud Forward Conference 2016, UBITECH presented an interactive, live demonstration of the PaaSword data privacy and security by design platform-as-a-service framework.
Watch our video highlighting the main aspects of the demonstrator.
Source: http://cf2016.holacloud.eu
Demonstrating the orchestration of reconfigurable-by-design applications over programmable infrastructure at the CF2016 SME Event
UBITECH performs an interactive, live demonstration of the ARCADIA Smart Controller (Orchestrator), coming along with a software development paradigm, tackling development, placement and orchestration of highly distributed applications over programmable multi-IaaS infrastructure – in the course of the SME Event and Demonstrations session of Cloud Forward Conference 2016 (held in Madrid, Spain).
UBITECH demonstrates the innovative security-by-design PaaSword Framework at the CF2016 SME Event
In the course of the SME Event and Demonstrations session of Cloud Forward Conference 2016 (held in Madrid, Spain), UBITECH performs an interactive, live demonstration of the PaaSword data privacy and security by design platform-as-a-service framework. This innovative framework enhances advanced security in the next generation cloud applications by revolutionizing the cloud developers’ toolkit in order to protect them against internal and external adversaries. It enables security annotations, transparently in your IDE, transformed into context-aware security policies that enforce cryptographic protection and physical distribution for securing sensitive data.
Introducing a Context Model and a Policies Management Framework for Reconfigurable-by-design Distributed Applications in Cloud Forward 2016
At the Cloud Forward Conference 2016 (CF2016), held on October 18-20, at the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid). UBITECH’s R&D team presents a context model for representing the entire lifecycle of reconfigurable-by-design distributed applications consisted of microservices and denoted in the form of a service graph. Based on the context model, we describe a policies management framework targeted at service providers for managing deployment and orchestration aspects of such applications over programmable infrastructure. As a matter of fact, the Policies Management Framework provides policies enforcement over the deployed service graphs following a continuous match-resolve-act approach. Specifically, the match phase regards the mapping of the set of applied rules that are satisfied based on the data streams coming from the monitoring infrastructure, the resolve phase regards the process of conflict resolution -if any- among the satisfied rules taking into account the pre-defined salience of each rule, while the act phase regards the provision of a set of suggested actions by the Policies Management Framework to the orchestrator, responsible for service graphs placement and management. Policies enforcement is realised through a rule-based framework that attempts to derive execution instructions based on the current set of data and the active rules; rules associated with the deployed service graphs over at each point of time.
UBITECH co-authors a scientific paper following the activities of the EU Cluster on Software Engineering for Services and Applications
A scientific paper entitled “Current and Future Challenges of Software Engineering for Services and Applications” has been co-authored by UBITECH and published at the Cloud Forward 2016 Conference that is going to be held in Madrid at 18-20 October, 2016. Given that ICT and, in particular, software is more and more pervasive and it cannot be considered anymore as a minor element of a complex system, there is a need to consolidate the software engineering discipline, which, despite the impressive achievements in the area of software technology, is probably one of the youngest scientific and technological disciplines with about 60 years of history. This paper summarizes the challenges that the Software Engineering for Services and Applications (SE4SA) cluster is considering as relevant. At this paper, UBITECH has actively contributed towards the collection and compilation of challenges dealt by the current European projects in Software Engineering (especially the “software design” and “software implementation and orchestration middleware” challenges), as well as the specification of future trends in the “privacy and security by design” software development era.
A Successful 1st Review of PaaSword in Brussels
The PaaSword consortium successfully demonstrated the results of the first 18 months during the first project review on 30th of September at the European Commission in Brussels. These results included the first release (by UBITECH and INTRASOFT) of the PaaSword Framework – a holistic data privacy and security by design framework that helps to protect sensitive data in the cloud. This includes among others mechanisms for flexible context-aware access control and security policies, innovative encryption and data fragmentation as well as distributed key management. A plug-in for the cloud-based Eclipse Che IDE supports cloud developers to create secure cloud applications, allowing standardized security- and privacy- related annotations at code level. The committee of external reviewers have been quite enthusiastic about the results; especially about the live, end-to-end demo of the PaaSword platform that UBITECH presented, which they said to be “very impressive”.
Source: https://www.paasword.eu/2016/10/04/successful-1st-review-paasword
Joint paper with TUB and FOKUS on security of Cloud services deployment and operation at the IEEE technically co-sponsored Networks 2016
Co-authoring a research paper, entitled “Embedding Security and Privacy into the Development and Operation of Cloud Services”, with the Technical University Berlin and Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin, UBITECH participates in the 17th International Network Strategy and Planning Symposium (Networks 2016). Networks 2016 constitutes the 17th edition of a symposium held every two years which attracts participants from all over the world. Network operators, software designers, system integrators, researchers from universities and industry, marketers, regulators and policy-makers convene to present their latest findings and share experiences in network strategy, planning, operations, management, control and design. Networks 2016 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society.
Dr. Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, Dr. Panagiotis Gouvas and their co-authors introduce an approach allowing Cloud application developers and service providers to consider security and privacy requirements across the application lifecycle. Specifically, a DevOps framework has been described that took into account several emerging technologies such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Microservice Pattern Design.
UBITECH presents an approach for anonymization of sensitive clinical and genetic data in CERC 2016
UBITECH participates in the “Collaborative European Research Conference” (CERC 2016), which is held in Blackrock Castle Cork on the 23rd of September 2016, constituting the result of a long standing research collaboration between Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) and the Hochschule Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, with a research paper introducing an approach for the anonymization of sensitive clinical and genetic data based on data cubes structures. In particular, in this paper, Mr. Ntalaperas presents a methodology for transforming data corresponding to patient clinical and genetic data to an equivalent data set that contains the informational content of the original data set regarding the medical data, but from which all information regarding personal data has been filtered out. The methodology builds upon the data cubes technologies combined with cell-suppression and perturbation techniques that ensure that the produced data cube cannot be reversed engineered, while also retaining the same statistical characteristics as the original data set.
