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
- A team of researchers from the Department of Agri-Food Engineering and Biotechnology of the Barcelona School of Agri-Food and Biosystems Engineering (EEABB), associated with the Specific Research Centre for Agri-Food Technology (Agrotech UPC), and the Design and Assessment group of Broadband Networks and Services (BAMPLA) at the Castelldefels School of Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering (EETAC), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), are participating in the development of a monitoring and decision support system for weed management in crops.
- A consortium comprised of researchers from the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (IRI, CSIC-UPC) and the Centre for Language and Speech Technologies and Applications (TALP) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), Suara Cooperativa and Datision are participating in the development of a robot that can converse and undertake everyday and care tasks
- Researchers from the Electronic and Biomedical Instrumentation (IEB) group of the Biomedical Engineering Research Centre (CREB) at the UPC are working with the company Detnov Security SL on a project to improve battery performance in fire detection systems.
- Researchers at the Centre for Land Valuation Policy (CPSV), from the research group Quality of Urban Life: Innovation, Sustainability and Social Engagement (QURBIS) at the UPC, have participated in the design of the theoretical model of the Building Renovation Passport based on BIM and Blockchain for the public administration.




