Tuesday, August 19, 2008

17th Summer School on Telecommunication

A very good morning with the late arrival for the 17th Summer school on Telecommunication. We missed the opening speech by the Prof. Jari but there was one speech going on by the Mario Hoffmann on the SEcurity and privacy i nAmbient environments.

It was the nice environemnt with the feedback system working in one corner. I asked one question regarding "What are the types of social engineering attack models. The answer he gave, spam fliters and so on.

It is asked to us that we need to write the report on the speech. I do not know what to write there are loads of question asked such as, "Is the security chalenge with mobile devices really different, or do we have just to install Firewalls also on those mobile devices ?
Is Security for mobile devices really a different challenge ? The iphone CAN be used as UMTS Router(called tethering). It is like using it as a modem. Why is Bluetooth NOT implemented in such a way, that the security can be used ? How embedded system middleware make a new and existing distributed device network trustworthy and secure, robust and fault tolerant ?

There was a slide speaking about the "Loss of control Surveillance Profiling". (SWAMI- Safegaurd in a World of Ambient Intelligence, EU-Project, FP6).Together with that, The Backend for Ambient Intelligent System was discussed.

The project such as "Networked Embedded System Midleware for Heterogeneous Physical Devices in Distributed Architecture" Was discussed with the main challenged and objectives. A building automataion scenarios was discussed in detail.

Hydra project was in detail with the discussion with security requirements spec.

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