A Secure Space for Collaborative Security Services

01.04.2010 - 31.07.2012
Research funding project
The aim of the "Secure Space" project, short for "A Secure Space for Collaborative Security Services", is to develop a software platform for the secure communication and collaboration of autonomous participants across enterprise boundaries in the Internet and to prove its usability by means of applications from the security domain. The collaboration is carried out by providing all participants shared data structures that they can access concurrently in a safe way. The state of the data structures can be changed and observed in near real-time and participants use this mechanism, also called "Space Based Computing", for communication and coordination. The Secure Space guarantees that only participants belonging to a business process which trust each other can access the shared data structures in one or more "Secure Rooms". Participating organizations are identified by exchangeable identity providers. The Secure Space¿s responsibility is to assign each identity its corresponding role and associated access rights in the space. Use cases comprise collaborative, peer-to-peer spam detection and intrusion detection, and will be implemented as part of an innovative, centralized firewall management in the security domain. But also other applications are enabled through the Secure Space: As an emerging trend, enterprises of the future are turning into so-called "virtual enterprises". In order to stay competitive, enterprises must react quickly, share knowledge, and cooperate. Participants that belong to different and physically dispersed organizations need to collaborate, exchange competencies, and share skills and resources. The problem addressed by the Secure Space also surfaces in so-called cloud computing scenarios. Today, cloud-computing means that one specific operator owns the cloud. The cloud being a monopoly of the cloud operator today can be changed by means of the Secure Space into an open, distributed cloud tomorrow.

People

Project leader

Project personnel

Institute

Contract/collaboration

  • underground_8 secure computing GmbH

Grant funds

  • FFG - Österr. Forschungsförderungs- gesellschaft mbH (National) Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

Research focus

  • Distributed and Parallel Systems: 100%

Keywords

GermanEnglish
Innovative Security ServicesInnovative Security Services
Space Based ComputingSpace Based Computing
Inter-Enterprise CollaborationInter-Enterprise Collaboration

External partner

  • underground_8 secure computing GmbH

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