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“INFORM” awarded 2nd place

The SBA FIT-IT proposal “INFORM” (Internet Forensic Framework) has been awarded the 2nd place in the competition for the best proposal among all proposals for “Trust in IT-Systems” in 2009.

The goal of “INFORM” is to study current challenges in computer forensics and to produce tools that enricht the toolset of a forensic analysist. In the traditional approach, the seizure of the suspects hard drives is used to analyse traces of malicious activities. With the widesread availability of hard drive encryption tools, online file storate systems and bootable Linux distributions that leave no traces on the hard drive, new tools and procedures are needed to support the evidence collection process. Social networks and anonymization networks pose further challenges for online forensics that will be adressed by “INFORM”.

The news report on futurezone and derstandard.

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Gastvortrag Prof. Müller: Löst die aktuelle Sicherheitsforschung nur die bekannten Probleme?

Löst die aktuelle Sicherheitsforschung nur die bekannten Probleme?

Sicherheit war bisher Zugangskontrolle. Statistiken zeigen, dass dieses Paradigma immer weniger ausreicht und dass dadurch die Anwendungen des Cloud Computing und der Service-orientierung gefährdet sind. Man will n icht nur Zugang haben, sondern auch die Gewissheit, dass Vereinbarungen zu jeder Zeit eingehalten werden. Diese so geannte Nutzungskontrolle ist eigentlich die bekannte Zuverlässigkeit verstanden als die Sicherheit ergänzt um die Korrektheit der Dienste. Sicherheitslücken ermöglichen durch die unvermeidlichen Interferenzen die Ableitung von Informationen, die nur durch unzulässige Informationsflüsse möglich sind.  Der Vortrag stellt die gegenwärtige Ausgangs- und Sicherheitslage anhand von Statistiken über Sicherheitsverletzungen vor. Gerade durch die Defizite der Sicherheitsforschung ist es zu Schwachstellen gekommen, die man heute unter dem Begriff “Compliance” zusammengefasst nur sehr aufwändig bekämpfen kann. Es handelt sich dabei um Sicherheitsprpobleme bei Prozessen. Hierzu hat die DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) unter dem Titel “zuverlässig sichere Systeme” ein Schwerpunktprogramm eingerichtet, das den Vortragende mitverantwortet. Es geht darum die Sicherheitsfrage über die Zugangskontrolle hinaus um die Zuverlässigkeit zu erweitern. Die praktischen und technischen Herausforderungen dazu stehen im Mittelpunkt des Vortrages.

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Mar 29, 2010, Guest lecture (Prof. Günter Müller): Löst die aktuelle Sicherheitsforschung nur die bekannten Probleme?

G.Müller

Titel: Löst die aktuelle Sicherheitsforschung nur die bekannten Probleme?

Abstrakt:

Sicherheit war bisher Zugangskontrolle. Statistiken zeigen, dass dieses Paradigma immer weniger ausreicht und dass dadurch die Anwendungen des Cloud Computing und der Service-orientierung gefährdet sind. Man will n icht nur Zugang haben, sondern auch die Gewissheit, dass Vereinbarungen zu jeder Zeit eingehalten werden. Diese so geannte Nutzungskontrolle ist eigentlich die bekannte Zuverlässigkeit verstanden als die Sicherheit ergänzt um die Korrektheit der Dienste. Sicherheitslücken ermöglichen durch die unvermeidlichen Interferenzen die Ableitung von Informationen, die nur durch unzulässige Informationsflüsse möglich sind.

Der Vortrag stellt die gegenwärtige Ausgangs- und Sicherheitslage anhand von Statistiken über Sicherheitsverletzungen vor. Gerade durch die Defizite der Sicherheitsforschung ist es zu Schwachstellen gekommen, die man heute unter dem Begriff “Compliance” zusammengefasst nur sehr aufwändig bekämpfen kann. Es handelt sich dabei um Sicherheitsprpobleme bei Prozessen. Hierzu hat die DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) unter dem Titel “zuverlässig sichere Systeme” ein Schwerpunktprogramm eingerichtet, das den Vortragende mitverantwortet. Es geht darum die Sicherheitsfrage über die Zugangskontrolle hinaus um die Zuverlässigkeit zu erweitern. Die praktischen und technischen Herausforderungen dazu stehen im Mittelpunkt des Vortrages.

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Guest lecture by Prof. Rinderle-Ma

Guest lecture by Prof. Rinderle-Ma on “Evolution von organisatorischen Strukturen und deren Effekte in prozessorientierten Informationssystemen”  (Feb 2, 10 am, SBA)

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Stanford University

From January to March 2010, Stefan Fenz will work as a visiting scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research at Stanford University. He will develop and implement novel methods for the ontology-based generation of Bayesian networks.

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D-A-CH Security

SBA Research co-organizes the conference with the University of Klagenfurt. See www.syssec.at/dachsecurity2010 for more details.

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Talk on Applications Security

Edgar Weippl presents the opening talk at this year’s ADV security event (IT-Sicherheit für Fortgeschrittene). (more…)

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Lange Nacht der Forschung 2009 – Review

LNF2009

112 People visited our information security-specific program at Lange Nacht der Forschung 2009. The program hosted by Secure Business Austria comprised privacy issues, wireless security, password security, and forensics. EVVA supported our program by presenting the latest lock innovations to our visitors.

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COMET Decision: Secure Business Austria extended till 2014

We are happy to announce that our SBA2 proposal has been accepted by the jury. The research grants enable us to continue our research till 2014. German press releases can be found at APA and FFG.

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Lange Nacht der Forschung 2009

LNF2009

On November 7 2009 16:27 – 00:00 Secure Business Austria hosts an information security-specific program at Lange Nacht der Forschung. The program comprises live demonstrations and awareness training in the fields of

  • wireless security,
  • password security,
  • social engineering,
  • privacy,
  • lockpicking,
  • mobile storage security,
  • credit card fraud, and
  • digital forensics.

We invite everybody to join us at Favoritenstrasse 16 1040 Wien.

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Presentation: Stoned Bootkit

Peter Kleissner (http://www.peterkleissner.com/) presented his Stoned Bootkit and new research directions to circumvent full disk encryption.

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BPM’09

Today we attend the highly prestigious International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM’2009) and present our paper “Business Process-based Resource Importance Determination” in the main track.

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International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems 2009

Our paper “A Reference Model for Risk-Aware Business Process Management” has been accepted at the 4th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRISIS2009).

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International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust 2009

Our paper “Towards Automating Social Engineering Using Social Networking Sites” has been accepted at the International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT2009).

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New Castle University – Secure Business Austria Workshop

From 18th to 19th June 2009 Aad van Moorsel and Simon E. Parkin from Newcastle University will visit our research center. Our goal is to identify and initialize joint research projects between Newcastle University and Secure Business Austria in the field of economically justified security solutions.

On 18th June 2009 9am Aad van Moorsel and Simon E. Parkin will give a public talk on their Trust Economics project. Trust Economics is a research project, which is conducted jointly by Hewlett-Packard, Merrill-Lynch, Newcastle University, University College London and University of Bath. Its objective is to develop a methodology that allows companies to make decisions about security investments based on costs and benefits for the company. Aad van Moorsel and Simon Parkin will present their recent work on knowledge base support for IT security investment decisions. The distinguishing feature of the Trust Economics knowledge base is the inclusion of the human behavioral aspect in its underlying information security ontology. In addition to their recent research results and technology developments, we will discuss the rationale behind the Trust Economics project.

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Database Forensic at the Security Forum in Hagenberg

Edgar Weippl gives a talk on Database Forensic at the Security Forum in Hagenberg (http://www.securityforum.at/vortraege.php).

Abstract: Whenever data is being processed, there are many places where parts of the data are temporarily stored; thus forensic analysis can reveal past activities, create a (partial) timeline and restore deleted data. While this fact is well known for computer forensic and multiple tools to forensically analyze data exit, the systematic analysis of database systems has only recently begun.

Clearly, database system are bound to leave more extensive traces since they not only store a file but, in addition, need indexes, rollback segments and log files. In this tutorial we will cover the basics of forensic analysis particularly focusing on database systems.

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AARIT and ERCIM Membership

Secure Business Austria is now member of AARIT (www.aarit.at) and ERCIM (www.ercim.org).

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Guest Lecture – Günter Müller

Günter Müller (http://www.telematik.uni-freiburg.de/content/mitarbeiter?q=user/4) gave an excellent talk on compliance and risk management.

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Springer Studies in Computational Intelligence

Our paper “An Evaluation of Technologies for the Pseudonymization of Medical Data” was accepted for publication.

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International Journal of Business Process Management

Our paper “An Empirical Study about the Status of Business Process Management” was accepted for publication.

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IEEE International Conference on Systems

We are attending the IEEE International Conference on Systems and present our latest research results regarding pseudonymization. We received the best paper award for the paper “Technologies for the Pseudonymization of Medical Data: A Legal Evaluation”.

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Secure 2.0 – FIT-IT Award

We took the second place with the project Secure 2.0 (FIT-IT) in this year’s FIT-IT awards.

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Guest Lecture – Ludwig Fuchs

Ludwig Fuchs (http://www-ifs.uni-regensburg.de/index.php?id=34) gave an excellent talk on combining role mining and role engineering.

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Guest Lecture – Stefan Sackmann

Stefan Sackmann (http://www.telematik.uni-freiburg.de/mitarbeiter/sackmann/) gave a talk on risk management. We will start a collaboration with his group. Stefan Fenz will manage the joint research efforts.

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Secure 2.0

Today, the FIT-IT project Secure 2.0 – Securing the Information Sharing on Web 2.0 has been officially launched at Secure Business Austria.

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