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Item Airline Application Security in the Digital Economy: Tackling Security Challenges for Distributed Applications in Lufthansa Systems(Springer Nature, 2019) Somoskői, Balázs; Spahr, Stefan; Rios, Erkuden; Ripolles, Oscar; Dominiak, Jacek; Cserveny, Tamás; Bálint, Péter; Matthews, Peter; Iturbe, Eider; Muntés-Mulero, Victor; CIBERSEC&DLT(a)Situation faced: In the era of pervasive digitalization, the airline IT software industry is facing a number of challenges from the combination of new distribution channels, social media, Big data, Cloud Computing, etc. One of the major challenges in creating smart and scalable software applications is how to tackle security challenges when components are distributed and operated in hybrid and multiple clouds, whose providers may be independent and heterogeneous. The difficulties reside not only in identifying and expressing the desired level of security in the application, but also in how the security guarantees are influenced by the cloud services used.(b)Action taken: We exemplify the case with a flight scheduling application prototype developed by Lufthansa Systems and explain how novel approaches are used to address security issues during the development of such a prototype by following the MUSA approach. MUSA stands for Multi-cloud Secure Applications and refers to an EU-funded research project that is developing an integrated solution for the development and operation of secure multi-cloud applications accounting for those security aspects from the beginning. We introduce the MUSA Security DevOps framework and lessons learned from using it.(c)Results achieved: Lufthansa Systems tested MUSA tools in an exercise to create, deploy and control a new secure application prototype. We describe how these tools were used in the context of the case study presented in this paper. We also analyze the impact that they had in the development, deployment, and operation of the multi-cloud prototype. This analysis is done by means of a user-centered evaluation using questionnaires and informal interviews.(d)Lessons learned: The most important lesson is the importance of a sound risk analysis from which the security decisions are taken. MUSA framework supports the automation of the risk analysis in a per component basis, helping to systematize the creation of the application risk profile. Another important aspect is how implementing a SecDevOps approach in a multi-cloud scenario proves that it is highly valuable to include security topics together with the regular DevOps methodology. Finally, we must underline the need for cloud standards which enable homogeneous cloud service descriptions that ease the comparison of the services and the offered security controls.Item Design solutions to improve resilience of metro vehicle to blast events(2018-12) El Koursi, El Miloudi; Bruyelle, Jean Luc; Seddon, Richard; O'Neill, Conor; POLIMEROSConsiderable effort is being devoted by researchers and stakeholders in order to improve the safety of metro systems with regard to terrorist attacks. The issue has been addressed by many researchers, taking into account the bow-tie model of safety management, in which the node is the terrorist attack, with on one side the causes of the attack (e.g. political issues, technical weaknesses) and on the other side the consequences (e.g. human, organisational, economical). The common goal is to implement a line of defence to isolate these causes and consequences, in order to prevent the attack from occurring and, should it happen, to mitigate its consequences as much as possible. This work takes into account the identified common attack methodologies and the behaviour of the surviving passengers in order to improve the situation management, assist the evacuation of and rescue to survivors. Moreover, technological improvements to the structure and critical systems of the vehicle have been devised and tested in real situation. This paper focuses particularly on the behaviour of people in blast situation, and presents the conclusions of the project on these effects and the related improvements of the vehicles design in order to improve resilience and survivability to blast.Item MUSA deployer: Deployment of multi-cloud applications(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017-08-07) Casola, Valentina; De Benedictis, Alessandra; Rak, Massimiliano; Villano, Umberto; Rios, Erkuden; Rego, Angel; Capone, Giancarlo; Cellary, Wojciech; Fugini, MariaGrazia; Reddy, Sumitra; CIBERSEC&DLTThe development of applications based on services offered by different, not conscious, providers, is expected to be growing in the next years. In order to offer effectively multicloud applications, many challenges still need to be faced. At this aim, the MUSA framework provides a DevOps approach to develop multi-cloud applications with desired Security Service Level Agreements (SLAs). This paper describes the MUSA Deployer models, which help developers to express their security requirements, and a Deployer tool that automatically provides cloud security services to offer Security SLAs.Item RFIDGlove: A wearable RFID reader(2009) Muguira, Leire; Vazquez, Juan Ignacio; Arruti, Asier; Ruiz-de-Garibay, Jonathan; Mendia, Izaskun; Renteria, Silvia; Tecnalia Research & Innovation; Digital BaseThere are different experiences in the use of RFID technology for warehouse inventories. However, there is future work to do on the design of advanced reading devices, applying wearable computation techniques and wireless communications. The aim of this work is to allow a natural interaction for the user who performs inventory tasks. In this paper we show the RFIDGlove system, which consists of a glove with an integrated RFID reader, an organic micro display and a communication system. The RFIDGlove system increases the efficiency of the activities in these areas, improving the user's experience and comfort while he/she uses the system.