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
- 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.
- Energy consumption in training and inference of artificial intelligence (AI) models, such as large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, has become a critical challenge due to its environmental impact and the costs associated with high-performance computing (HPC). The energy required to train these models and interact with them increases significantly as the models grow in size and complexity.
- The adoption of 6G applications will have a positive impact on a broad range of innovations set to transform our society in the future. These include autonomous vehicles that reduce accidents, more efficient emergency services, and connected drones that expedite the delivery of medical supplies between healthcare centres, to name a few examples. These and other emerging solutions continue to evolve, driven by the constant technological advancements in communications. The implementation of these new technologies requires a process that inevitably involves testing in environments as true to real-life conditions as possible.
- The European project LIFE Biogasnet, coordinated by the Biological Treatment of Gaseous Contaminants and Odours Group (BIOGAP) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), has validated a new biogas purification technology that improves the quality of this resource, produced in urban solid waste treatment plants and wastewater treatment facilities, while reducing the carbon footprint, thus promoting the concept of a circular economy. The new solution is based on efficient, low-cost biological technologies, combining a biotrickling filter with a nitrification bioreactor.
