Projects about Cybersecurity

The online advertising explosion is raising serious data privacy and security concerns.The EU-funded TYPES project ‘protects individuals’ privacy while empowering them to control how their data is used by service providers for advertising purposes,’ says Rosa Araujo, project coordinator for the EU-funded initiative. ‘By raising end user trust and advertiser transparency, all stakeholders of the advertising ecosystem stand to benefit.’

The EU-funded VISION project has developed a visual privacy platform to help public entities deliver transparent and privacy-enhanced e-government services that meet the highest privacy standards and offer citizens personalised control over their data.

In the European Union ports play a vital role by facilitating external trade and passenger movement. Ports play a unique role in the global supply chain. They also provide the necessary infrastucture for pleasure cruises. The EU-funded project SAURON helps port operators to guarantee security for their employees, visitors, passengers and citizens living in the port’s vicinity by combining the most advanced techniques related to prevention, detection and mitigation of threats.

The European Commission recently approved the project YAKSHA, which will reinforce European Union (EU) and Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) cooperation and build partnerships in the Cybersecurity domain by developing a solution tailored to specific users and national needs, leveraging EU Know-how and expertise. YAKSHA will develop innovative methods for malware detection, collection and analysis, as well as design a specialised system to be used for long-term storage and analysis of the information, and deploy standard information formats and interfaces to facilitate intero

Two newly-discovered security flaws in computer processors, named Meltdown and Spectre, could allow unauthorised users to gain direct access to the heart of computer systems and steal personal data. The vulnerabilities were discovered by an international research team, in which Graz University of Technology’s Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications (TU Graz, Austria) played a central role. The EU's European Research Council (ERC) has been supporting this research project since 2016, to the tune of two-million euro.

The Horizon 2020 funded PANORAMIX project is developing a European infrastructure for secure communications based on mix-nets which are cryptographic overlays for network communication with the capability to eliminate meta-data information.

The Horizon 2020 KONFIDO project is working to advance digital security of eHealth technology. In order to identify barriers and facilitators of cross-border data exchange, they have launched a survey. You can have your say until 19 November 2017.

The SECURED project found ways to close security gaps in the operating systems of mobile devices. Antonio Lioy tells us how important EU funding was for his research.

The recently launched EU-funded SHIELD project proposes a universal solution for dynamically establishing and deploying virtual security infrastructures into ISP (Internet Service Provider) and corporate networks.

The Horizon 2020 Privacy Flag project, launched in May 2015 for three years, is developing a privacy monitoring and protection solution to help citizens keep their personal data safe. One of its key features is that it will highlight the level of risk to users' privacy in a variety of situations.