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TORSEC
Computer and Network Security Group
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Presentation
The TORSEC group performs research in the fields of computer and network security.
It is established within the Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica
of the Politecnico di Torino.
The group's activity is mainly concerned with - but not restricted to -
the following topics:
- computer security (trusted and trustworthy computing, platform and data privacy)
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electronic identity, user authentication/authorization and identity management
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design and optimization of network shields (by means of firewalls and secure channels, such as VPN or TLS/SSL)
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electronic commerce (Internet and mobile payment systems)
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system security (risk analysis, security planning and audit, intrusion detection and tracing, forensics analysis)
Current activities
Within the general areas mentioned above, our current resarch interests are:
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trusted-computing
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where we have relevant work in the areas of
remote attestation
and
software development
(the Trusted Platform Agent (TPA) library
and our porting of TrouSerS for Windows);
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security policy and ontology
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where we have defined an ontology for virtualized systems;
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firewall optimization and automatic security configuration
- current network complexity is such that manual configuration and optimization is scarcely (if at all) feasible, thus we are working at automatic systems for performing these tasks; some of our most important results are given in the papers
"Network-level access control policy analysis and transformation",
"Automatic (re)configuration of IT systems for dependability", and
"Security plans for SaaS".
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automatic generation of cryptographic code
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You can also have a look at the list of the
funded projects where we are (or were) involved.
Last modified on Monday, 02-Jul-2012 09:49:21
