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 project, led by the Centre for Advanced Technologies in Mechanics (CATMech) research group at UPC, aims to minimise the by-product waste in hemp cultivation through the development of a competitive industrial plant, reduce energy consumption, and increase comfort in buildings through research into innovative insulation panels in bioconstruction.
- RootBot aims to develop and demonstrate an autonomous robotic electromagnetic detection system equipped with ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and advanced navigation technologies to map the root systems of fruit trees and soil moisture. This project seeks to optimize agricultural resource management, particularly water, and contribute to more sustainable farming through the use of innovative technological tools.
- The Group of Environmental Engineering and Microbiology (GEMMA) at UPC is leading the PROALGAE project, aimed at producing new alternative proteins from biomass derived from microalgae and cyanobacteria cultivated using by-products from the agri-food industry. These alternative proteins aim to provide a sustainable ingredient to meet the growing global demand for protein, applicable in the development of food and feed.
- An international research team led by the UPC has created a hybrid device that combines, for the first time ever, molecular solar thermal energy storage with silicon-based photovoltaic energy. It achieves a record energy storage efficiency of 2.3% and up to 14.9% total solar energy utilisation.




