Cyber Security & Privacy EU Forum
The CSP EU Forum, a European conference on Cyber Security and Privacy organized by Effectsplus, in coordination with the Trust and Security Unit of DG INFSO took place on the 24th and 25th April in Berlin, Germany.
This two day event was attended by over 100 delegates and brought together Cyber Security and Privacy experts in academia, industry and government as well as practitioners, standards developers and policy makers, with a view to engage in discussions about common goals and explore important research directions in the field. The CSP EU Forum also served as a venue for learning about state-of-the-art in security and privacy research, giving delegates the opportunity to network with experts in the field.
Speakers included key notes from Cloud Security Alliance, ENISA, SAP, HP, along with a variety workshops that examined a number of areas and challenges in cyber security and privacy issues, including Trustworthy ICT Solutions, Trust in Digital life, Building International Cooperation in Trustworthy ICT, Security and Privacy, web service security and advanced security event management of complex systems and much more. The event also hosted exhibition stands/demos from security related research projects.
EffectsPlus is a European framework for future internet and co-ordinates trust and security for the future internet, with TSSG as Project Co-ordinators who took a lead role in organizing the event. Effectsplus has several partners including HP, SAP, ATOS, Waterford Institute of Technology and TSSG.
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Enterprise Ireland Visit TSSG
The Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) welcomed Enterprise Ireland visitors yesterday to the Carriganore Campus, Waterford. Members from Enterprise Ireland were met by Dr.Willie Donnelly, Founder of TSSG and Barry Downes, Executive Director Innovation & Commercialisation who showcased some of the current research projects within the group, including FAME and SOCIETIES, along with two TSSG Spin-out companies ZolkC and FeedHenry and Betapond who currently engage TSSG, displayed their technologies and innovations.
Enterprise Ireland is the government organisation responsible for the development and growth of Irish enterprises in world markets. They work in partnership with Irish enterprises to help them start, grow, innovate and win export sales on global markets. In this way, Enterprise Ireland support sustainable economic growth, regional development and secure employment.
Enterprise Ireland also visited the main Waterford Institute of Technology and met members of WIT’s other research groups including PMBRC , SEAM, as well as looking at the different facilities available within the campus.
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Privacy directive to spark demand for content tools
Author: Karlin Lillington
Article featured in The Irish Times, 5th April 2012.
DATA PRIVACY is about to become big business, and a research group within the Waterford Institute of Technology hopes a long-standing interest in the area will translate into fresh projects with EU backing.
Europe’s proposed new directive on data protection, which EU commissioner Viviane Reding launched in January and has said she hopes will make it through the European Parliament by next year, will bring stricter data management requirements – enforced by significant fines – for businesses, as well as a novel “right to be forgotten” for EU citizens. This would require businesses that manage user data and uploaded user content to remove certain types of information at a user’s request.
While Europe could choose to bring in the directive as currently formulated, or require changes, the almost-certain outcome is that once a new directive is agreed, businesses will need to be able to hit the ground running with privacy-oriented tools that can manage content and personal data.
This is an area that has been of particular interest to WIT’s Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG). Researcher Shane Dempsey says TSSG has developed two projects in this area already in ongoing collaborations with other European research groups and industry.
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RTE Visits ArcLabs
Recently ArcLabs was visited by RTE , where a variety of start-up companies originating with TSSG were interviewed by reporter, Damien Tiernan. Dr. Willie Donnelly, Director of the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) was also interviewed.
ArcLabs is a state-of-the-art Innovation Centre which was established by Waterford Institute of Technology in 2005 and is based at the 150-acre West Campus in Carriganore which houses a community of early-stage companies and is a base for over 170 highly-skilled business and technology professionals.
By leveraging the research and innovation expertise of Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) including the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) which is headquartered at the Carriganore Campus, ArcLabs helps entrepreneurs and start-up businesses to achieve success within national and international markets.
RTE interviewed a wide variety of companies including TSSG spin out’s FeedHenry, ZolkC, Betapond, and also interviewed independent start up GBRDirect.
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TSSG takes part in World Cyber Security Technology Research Summit in Belfast
James Clarke, Strategic EU Liaison Manager, TSSG and coordinator of the Framework Programme 7 Building International Cooperation for Trustworthy ICT (BIC) project participated to the second World Cyber Security Technology Research Summit, organised by The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) in Belfast on 16th March 2012.
The goal of the Annual Summit is to bring together experts in the field of cyber security from leading research institutes, government bodies and industry throughout the world in a ‘DAVOS-style’ activity around cyber security, enabling the sharing of information on future cyber security matters, and bringing cyber security experts together to meet the challenge of safeguarding the internet of tomorrow.
Guests at the Summit included speakers from Kaspersky Lab, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the UK’s Home Office, the European Commission, McAfee, the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, Cisco, SRI International, Georgia Tech, IBM and CyLabs.
The TSSG led BIC project was highlighted in the keynote presentation by the European Commission as one of the main projects engaging the European programme with international partners to “identify global trust and security challenges of mutual interest and benefit and prioritise the visions and research directions amongst the countries, moving towards alignment of work programmes.
The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) is a new Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) and is based at Queen’s University of Belfast’s, Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) in the Northern Ireland Science Park, Belfast. With the total funding in the region of £30M over five years, CSIT aims to create the security infrastructure needed to safeguard the trustworthiness of information stored electronically, both at home and in the workplace.
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