[19/07/2007]
Over the next five years, researchers with KISON, the research group into computer security of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) of the UOC, will take part in two research projects that have recently received significant impetus and recognition from the Ministry of Education and Science. In broad terms, the aim of the two projects that will be conducted is to reconcile the data security and copyright protection systems in digital technologies with the right of confidentiality of the users of these systems.
The KISON research group, part of IN3, will take part in two research projects with significant state recognition
The first of these initiatives is the ARES (Advanced Research on Information Security and Privacy) project, the mission of which is the study into the security of businesses and the administration with regard to the confidentiality of people in the various areas affected by information and communication technologies (ICT), such as commerce, copyright and high-security infrastructures, to then draw up proposals that enable the security of this technology to be increased without affecting the confidentiality rights of the individuals who take part in these processes. The team from the UOC research institute is taking part in this project with the Rovira i Virgili University, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the University of the Balearic Islands and the University of Malaga, together with the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the Higher Centre for Scientific Research (CSIC). The initiative was included in June in the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 convocation of the Ministry of Education and Science. Besides this, the other research project in which KISON is taking part that has received this support is the E-AEGIS project, aimed at developing an electronic shield to reconcile the confidentiality of consumers and the security of transactions using ICT. The research group is also taking part jointly with the Rovira i Virgili University and the CSIC, and the proposal has been included in the convocation of the National Information Society Services Technologies Programme (TSI). In this project, the KISON group will specifically be working on aspects on the introduction of trademarks to protect the copyright of digital content, known as watermarking, without their giving information that infringes the confidentiality of the consumers. The convocations that have provided these projects with funding are the most important for research in Spain. In the first case, the Consolider-Ingenio 2010, the application in which KISON is taking part was one of the 27 that received assistance out of the 73 submitted, with a score of 85 points out of a total of 100. In the other convocation, the E-AEGIS project was one of the 23 that received funding out of the 51 that applied.
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