Vision
The vision of pervasive and mobile computing redefines the manner in which we think about computing and computation in general. It shatters the foundations of traditional security engineering undermining some of its fundamental assumptions. The spotlight shifts from infrastructure to the user and the information omnipresence. The concept of perimeters dissolves in its inability to cope with the fluidity of data movement. Information crosses physical, administrative, legislative, cultural and social boundaries supporting the user in accomplishing its goals and tasks in a highly seamless and personalized fashion. Rather than representing an active obstacle, trading off with functionality and availability, security and privacy technologies need to co-evolve with the users themselves.
The guiding vision of CREATE-NET Security Area (SEA) R&D is a secure pervasive and mobile computing environment in which users accomplish their tasks in a natural manner, working in synergy with the system with all the necessary information being omnipresent in a secure fashion and the private information being properly guarded. The results of our research efforts come in the form of novel and evolved adaptive security and privacy models which place users and information at the centre of the big picture.
The areas of interest in accomplishing this vision are the following:
- Context-Adaptive Security (flexible security models that adapt to the dynamically and unpredictably changing threat levels in pervasive/mobile computing environments)
- Data-Centric Security (shifting the focus from infrastructure-, application- or service-level security models to fine-grained adaptive models in which individual data objects determine required levels of security to be established)
- Security Protocols (mainly at the application layer, such as e.g. banking payment and transaction protocols)
- Systems architectures (analyzing and re-designing systems and networks to cater for more dynamic, flexible, context-adaptive and data-centric security models) and virtualization security
- Security usability and user-centric security (overcoming the usability problems of various security mechanisms and models by devising novel user-friendly and highly-personalized security paradigms - mainly at the application and interface layers)
Contact
To contact the group you can use the following address: sea@create-net.org