In Safelayer we believe that it is essential to work for the development, diffusion and expansion of new technologies and open standards. In consequence, from our beginnings, we take part actively in multiple initiatives of work groups both national and international, playing this way an active role in the development and the diffusion of the knowledge in this type of technologies.
Clearly defining the company’s culture and value system, every year Safelayer invests a high percentage of total revenues into research, development and innovation (RDI), an area that accounts for 60% of our resources. Our success has been based on RDI and our ability to develop new products and technology lines; new solutions that place us at the forefront of technology.
Period: 2007-2010
The Segur@ project has been selected by the Spanish Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology's CENIT programme (ref. CENIT-2007-2004). Fifteen universities and research centres and twelve companies have taken part in the project. Its aim is to define and develop a framework of trust and security for ICT use in the information society by studying and extending the concepts of “trusted networks” and “robust digital identity”, among other activities. Safelayer will contribute by defining ontological models for the different security mechanisms (authentication, authorization, integrity, confidentiality and non-repudiation, centring its research on the new generation of digital signatures) which will describe the security and trust environment, and contribute to the integration and interoperability of different technologies.
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SAT2 -Semantic & Ambient Trust Technologies
Period: 2007-2009
The goal of the SAT2 project is to incorporate security and trust services in ad hoc networks that adapt better to the requirements of users while being more specific and simpler to use. The first phase of the SAT2 project consisted of three main research lines: the definition of ontologies for the management of trust services; the study of ontologies that describe context information, and the improvement of autoconfiguration, collaboration and privacy aspects of ad hoc networks. These theoretical results lay the basis for a work focused on the components and architecture of the Internet of the Future. In 2008, a semantic ambient trust prototype started to be developed, and possible application scenarios of security and confidence gained from the exploitation of semantic technologies and environmental considerations as well as ad hoc networks, were identified. Currently, basic research on network infrastructure technologies has widen to include cognitive radio networks and mesh networks, and the final architecture is being defined. Besides, some validators that demostrate the actual behaviour of the proposed protocols and services are being developed.
Co-funded by Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade (refs. FIT - 360000-2007-48, TSI-020100-2008-365 and TSI-020100-2009-374). Some of the results are detailed in Safelayer Labs' web.
Period: 2006-2008
SEGURIDAD 2020 is an industrial research project that involves 14 relevant companies from the security area and emblematic users of the ITC in Spain. The main purpose of the project is to take a global view of the definition and securing of digital territories in intelligent environments, while taking into account various technological, interoperability, standardisation, social and legislative aspects. Co-funded by Spanish Ministry of Industry (ref. FIT-360503-2006-3).
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Period: 2005-2007
Onom@topic+ (European Smart Card Platform for Citizenship and Mobile Multimedia Applications) is a European project where 27 organizations from 11 countries have the strategic goal of developing a complete hardware and software framework to allow the European Union to massively deploy new services addressed to the Citizenship and Mobile Multimedia Applications. Co-funded by Spanish Ministry of Industry (ref. FIT-360005-2007-15).
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Period: 2002-2004
CertiVeR (Certificate Validation and Revocation) project arises from the present experience of the European Certification authorities, which based on the IEFT standard OCSP (On-line Status Certification Protocol), has the objective of offering a whole set of digital certificate revocation related services, including the OCSP publication as an outsource to any interested CA.
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Period: 2003-2004
The aim of eEPoch (eEurope smart card charter Proof of Concept and Holistic solution) is to demonstrate interoperable and secure smart card based digital identification systems, which provide the levels of trust and confidence necessary for citizens to interact digitally with their national and municipal administrations and other European institutions. It will enable cross border electronic signature for legal purposes, offer reliable identification based on data in government databases, as well as ensure secure authentication of cardholder and device on the basis of PIN, biometrics and PKI mutual authentication. The project will establish an action research partnership between a set of national public service EID projects with trial sites in the following countries: France, Ireland, Israel, Italy Spain and United Kingdom.
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Period: 2001-2003
Founded by EEMA (European Forum for Electronic Business) the PKI Challenge project, has the aim of defining and agreeing interoperability criteria against which PKI products should be tested, in order to build an integrated and heterogeneous PKI technology. The most important PKI vendors, CSP (Certificate Service Providers), consultants, users as well as academic institutions are all involved in the project.
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Period: 2001-2002
The PERMIS project (PrivilEge and Role Management Infrastructure Standards validation) has the challenge of defining the standards to solve the issues of certification attributes. In this way it will be possible to simplify the authentication and authorisation mechanism, necessary for electronic transactions between the Public Sector and their citizens as well as enterprises and its customers, also known as: G2C, G2B and B2B.
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Period:2002
Under the cooperation programs from the EC,Safelayer has collaborated with other European countries on the e-STIO project whose objective is to specify and develop a set of tools to perform the required interoperability tests of the "electronic signature" related products and services in Europe.
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