CNR — Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
The Italian National Research Council (CNR) is the main public research organization of Italy. The CNR consists of about 100 different research institutes that span from human sciences to engineering sciences.
The security group of the Institute of Telematics and Informatics (IIT-CNR) in Pisa runs research and development activities in cyber-security. The group consists of about 25 persons, ranging from researchers to Ph.D. students and software engineers.
In the Internet sector, IIT represents the Italian Registry in charge with the registration and management of domain names within the country code top level domain “it” (ISO 3166). Due to this activity, IIT interacts with around 1400 Italian and foreign Internet Service Providers.
As part of the CNR, the security group has a significant expertise on cloud security, usage control and distributed security in general. Specifically, the group developed several technologies for Data Sharing Agreements managements as well as advanced usage control techniques. They currently lead the FP7 funded Network of Excellence of Engineering Secure Software and Systems (NESSoS). Moreover, they coordinate the CNR Interdepartmental Security Project, for the prevention of any action that may be harmful to society, humans, and organizations in Italy, with special emphasis to cyber security and critical infrastructure protection.
These researchers are (or have been) involved, with several roles, in national and European projects FP6-FP7: among the other, NESSoS, Aniketos, Coco-Cloud, CAMINO, Connect, Contrail, SESAMO, Consequence, Sensoria, S3MS, GridTrust. They are also active in EIT ICT Labs projects and leading some security activities.
PoliTo — Politecnico di Torino
Established in 1859, POLITO is the oldest technical University in Italy and one of the most prestigious public institutions in Italy for education and research in engineering, architecture and design. Ranking among the first twenty European technical universities, it is globally recognized as a high-quality centre for education and research.
The Department of Control and Computer Engineering in POLITO hosts a strong group of faculty members (including 2 IEEE Fellows) working in the area of embedded system design, with emphasis on power optimization, test, reliability, security and design validation.
UniUrb — Università di Urbino
Established in 1506, the University of Urbino Carlo Bo (UNIURB) is one of the most ancient Universities in Europe. It is located in one of central Italy’s most important Renaissance cities, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1998.
The Department of Pure and Applied Sciences (DISPEA) reflects the multidisciplinarity character of UNIURB, by including researchers of mathematics, computer science, engineering, and many others. The faculty members of DISPEA of the ICT area are currently involved in 4 projects funded by the Italian Programme PRIN, and cover competencies in various topics of interest for the ASCOT project: formal design and verification of complex systems, theory of concurrency, formal specification languages and architectural-style description languages, modal logics with a particular emphasis on temporal logics, model checking techniques, and foundations of security and safety analysis and design.