TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES
PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION
- Privacy
- Personal data management
- Protection of copyright and digital content distribution rights
- Suitable codes for fingerprinting and/or watermarking
- Tracing codes
- Cryptographic protocols for a Secure Digital Society:
- Cryptographic key generation and management systems
- Encryption and digital signature schemes with advanced features
- Post-quantum cryptography
- Distributed cryptography and computation outsourcing
- Data protection/applications for mobile phones
- Secure storage
- Secure elements
- Trusted execution environments
CONSULTANCY, AUDITING AND SECURITY ANALYSIS
- Consultancy
- Auditing
- OWASP methodology
- OSStMM methodology
- Computer, mobile and network forensics
- Chain of custody
- Search for digital evidence
- Expert inspections
- Penetration test
- Incident response
- Implementation and adaptation
- GUAITA platform: management of software vulnerabilities


CLOUD AND BIG DATA
- Cloud computing security
- Big data protection
- Security for SMEs
- Security in networks and services
CYBERSECURITY COMPLIANCE AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY
- Compliance and security policies
- Cybersecurity risk assessment
- Business continuity plan to protect and to recover
INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY
- Critical infrastructure
- Internet of Things
- Smart transport
- Cybersecurity for smart infrastructure
TRAINING AND EDUCATION
TRUST AND SECURITY SERVICES
- Identity, authentication and authorization
- Secure identity
- Anonymity
- Reputation systems
- Optimization and decentralization of PKI
- Delegated and federated authorizations
- Biometrics
- Payment and finance services
- Electronic society
- e-Payment
- e-Commerce
- e-Democracy
- e-Governance
- e-Health
- Blockchain
- Distributed ledgers
- Creation, management and auditing of smart contracts
- Self-sovereign identity
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RELATED PROJECTS
- The Group of Construction Research and Innovation (GRIC) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) leads the RESILIENT project, which develops advanced models and methodologies to assess climate-resilience strategies in buildings and optimise decision-making.
- A research team from the Sustainable Construction Engineering Group (ECS) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), together with the Catalan company La Farga, a manufacturer of copper products and semi-finished copper products and a leader in copper recycling, has taken part in the development of a solution to use slag from the copper refining process as new materials and to optimise the use of natural resources in industry. Through this project, La Farga aims to valorise this slag for high added-value industrial applications, such as conductive cements used to manufacture road pavements or industrial sensing products.
- The UPC’s Centre for Sensors, Instruments and Systems Development (CD6) in Terrassa, alongside IDOM Engineering, has finalised the design and construction of the optical system that will calibrate the Extremely Large Telescope’s (ELT) main mirror, with a 39-metre diameter. The ELT will be the world’s largest ground-based optical and near-infrared telescope. It is currently under construction at an altitude of over 3,000 metres on Cerro Armazones in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
- A joint UPC research team, integrated by the CommSensLab-UPC, and the ICM-CSIC, is participating in the EO4TIP project, which is developing new Earth observation methodologies to detect tipping points and sudden changes at local and regional scale on Earth using high-resolution satellite data.




