The Hydra project is co-funded by the 
Partner: | The Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology - SIT |
Country: | Germany |
Type: | Research Institution |
Contact person: | Mario D. Hoffmann |
Website: | www.sit.fhg.de |
Key persons:
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Mario Hoffmann, Manuel Matthess, Jan Peter Stotz |
Areas of expertise: |
The
Fraunhofer Institute SIT is one of the pioneers within the field of
IT-Security in Germany and Europe and has experience in development and
promotion of security technologies and in embedding of security
technologies into already established applications to make them
trustworthy. Comprising about 100 employees SIT offers highly reliable
and individual services in assuring the protection of infrastructures
and networks that are enterprise-critical. SIT
is a steady and responsible partner to business, industry, and
government departments – such as DoCoMo EuroLabs, Fujitsu, Siemens,
Deutsche Telekom, BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and
Research), and BSI (German Federal Office for Information Security). SIT
plays vital and active roles in several bodies for standardisation and
scientific research. HYDRA will specifically take advantage of
contributions to the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) – a global
pre-standardisation body. Major projects addressed in the research department “Secure mobile Systems” are currently dedicated to the analysis and the design of secure seamless roaming and handover mechanisms for convergent wireless and mobile networks. In the area of secure identification technologies (smartcards, biometrics, electronic signature and public key infrastructures) the Fraunhofer Institute SIT belongs to the leading IT developers. The third important field for HYDRA is security modelling and model validation. SIT has developed methods and tools to formally specify system models and security requirements, which enable the developer to simulate the system and verify the properties. Concrete experience is gained in the SIT section for “Practical System Security”, and the use of the SIT Security Test Laboratory. |
Role in the project: | SIT’s
role in HYDRA is the driver of application’s security enhancements and
new security concepts for open systems. SIT strives for establishing
open security standards and balancing stakeholder’s interests in an
approach of multilateral security enabling collaborative systems to
securely interoperate across domains.
SIT participates in 8 Work packages:
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