Here you will find interesting news concerning the ESUKOM project. Furthermore, we will highlight results that were achieved in the field of IT-Security, Trusted Computing and Mobile Security.

Best Practise Report

The document Best Practise Report describes the results of the project and the define final best-practise-policys. The research project ESUKOM, sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research during 2010-2012, has defined its... more

Video Demonstrators

The ESUKOM project aims to develop a real-time security solution for enterprise networks that works based upon the correlation of metadata. A key challenge for ESUKOM is the steadily increasing adoption of mobile consumer electronic devices... more

D.A.CH Security 2012

The conference DACH Security takes place every year and is organize by the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. This time the conference took place at the University of Applied Sciences Konstanz. Many topics of the IT security area have been... more

Final workshop

The 2-days-workshop of the project ESUKOM in September had the goal to bring together the different prototypes in one common demonstrator. Therefore defined use cases have been tested before the workshop starts and were evaluated between these both... more

(ISC)2 Security Congress

Fraunhofer SIT presented a novel approach to security in mobile ad-hoc networks at the (ISC)2 Security Congress in Philadelphia, USA. This novel approach allows to establish trust in zero trust environments where no existing communication and trust... more

TCG Members Meeting

At the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Members meeting in Madrid between 19th and 21st of June the University of Applied Sciences of Hanover and Fraunhofer SIT presented a number of ESUKOM results. The companies present showed a keen interest in the... more

6th project meeting

The sixth project meeting of ESUKOM, which took place at the partner NCP engineering GmbH in Nuremberg, included mainly the discussion about the development of the correlation engine. This work will be done by the partner University of Applied... more

MASSIF Workshop

The project ESUKOM, represented by the project-leader DECOIT GmbH, has been invited to the workshop of the European research project MASSIF (www.massif-project.eu) during the EU forum Cyber Security & Privacy (www.cspforum.eu) in Berlin, to discuss... more

PlugFest in Darmstadt

Company representatives and researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology in Darmstadt got together from March 20 to 22 during the first European PlugFest of the Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Group. During such... more

HotMobile 2012

Members of the ESUKOM project had the chance to talk about recent results of their project at the ACM HotMobile 2012 workshop. The annual, highly selective workshop (acceptance rate full papers approx. 20%) was held from 28 to 29 of February in San... more

Plug-Fest in Darmstadt

Who fits to whom and how good is the communication between different devices? At the PlugFest from 20. to 22. of March, international IT experts join each other at Fraunhofer SIT in Darmstadt, to test new communication possibilities between different... more

Fifth project meeting

At 25th of January the partner of ESUKOM met on the fifth project meeting at the Fraunhofer SIT in Darmstadt. A central topic of this meeting was the meta-data model and the new developed generic user scenario. Additionally the work of the... more

TNC Plugfest 2011

With DECOIT and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hannover, two partners of the ESUKOM project took part at the TCG (Trusted Computing Group) Interoperability Plugfest, that was held from November 15th to 17th in San Jose and was organized... more

Fourth project meeting

At 23rd of November, the project ESUKOM met on the fourth time at the partner mikado soft gmbh in Berlin. On the agenda stood the project status and procedure, the development status of the prototypes, and the meta-data model with the consolidation... more

SKIMS cooperation

The project SKIMS (A Cooperative Autonomous Immune System for Mobile Devices) is similar to ESUKOM a research project from the program IT security research. The project has a special focus on research for security in insecure environments. The... more

NSA TCCE 2011

From 20th to 22nd of September the second NSA Trusted Computing Conference took place in Orlando, Florida. This years theme was "Using COTS Technologies to Deliver Decisive Defensive Advantage". The exhibition serves US goverment, US military and IT... more

Status seminar in Bonn

Between the 18th and 19th of October, the first status seminar at the research center in Bonn took place. The project ESUKOM was also there and presented their results. Additionally all sub-projects have been presented, why all partners of ESUKOM... more

D.A.CH Security 2011

Location of the yearly conference D.A.CH Security was at the EWE-Forum from 20.-21. of September. 48 talks have been organised with additional six pick-up-abstractors that might have been understudied. Topic was an interdisciplinary state-of-the-art... more

ESUKOM @ TCG Meeting

ESUKOM members Jens Lucius (NCP), Wolfgang Dürr and Thomas Ganswindt (both mikado), Nicolai Kuntze (Fraunhofer SIT) and Josef von Helden (FHH) actively attended several workgroup meetings at TCG Members Meeting in Munic. In the plenary research... more

Meeting at Google

Results of the research and development of the ESUKOM project has been presented within a Google tech talk at the Google Labs in Zurich by Fraunhofer SIT. The presentation was well attended and it gaves interests from the audience. more

Â Juniper Workshop

The second ESUKOM workshop was held on April 13 2011 in Hannover, this time with the involvement of Juniper Networks represented by Steve Hanna and Andreas Schmiedner. Juniper Networks is one of the leading companies in the field of network... more

Â Third Project Meeting

The third project meeting of all ESUKOM partners was held in Hannover on April 12. The main topics on the agenda dealt with the status of the current prototype implementation and with the ongoing work on the next work package reports. Furthermore,... more

Â ESUKOM @ Univ Frankfurt

The ESUKOM project was presented at the University of Frankfurt within the scope of a workshop on security and datacenter-design (http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/tagungen/security_und_datacenter_design/). The workshop was organized by the... more

Â IF-MAP Talk at Cebit 2011

mikado soft has presented the IF-MAP protocol at Cebit 2011 in Hanover, Germany. The talk introduces the technological basics, descibes potential use cases and highlights the ESUKOM research project. The talk is available for download (german version... more

MASSIF Meeting

Due to its flexibility, the IF-MAP protocol is suitable for a wide range of use cases, even such use cases that go beyond the classical field of network security. Recently, Ingo Bente, a research associate with the Trust@FHH group and their... more

2nd project meeting

At 13th of Januar, after the workshop with Infoblox, the second project meeting of the project ESUKOM took place at the University of Applied Sciences in Hannover. This time the main topics were administrative things, look back of the workshop the... more

ESUKOM workshop

In Hanover on 12th of January a workshop took place between the partners of ESUKOM and the network manufacturer Infoblox from the USA. Infoblox has established the first IF-MAP server on the market and is very interested in the research activities of... more

Blog Post at if-map.com

Ingo Bente, a research associate from FHH, was interviewed by Dave Greenfield from if-map.com recently. The main topics were FHH's Open Source efforts, the potential impacts of IF-MAP and especially the ESUKOM research project. You can find the full... more

Analysis of Android

The master-thesis of Johannes Westhuis analyzed the Android-platform for support of trusted computing. The partner of ESUKOM FH Hannover worked out this results in the tNAC-Projekt. Additionally requirements of trusted computing have... more

Kick-off Meeting

The ESUKOM Kick-off meeting was held on October 4th in Bremen. All members of the consortium got together at the DECOIT GmbH head office. The project is scheduled for two years and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and... more