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This page offers the possibility to attain new information about the SIMU project. Additionally, new aspects of the areas IT security, SIEM, trusted computing and IF-MAP are presented.

SIMU project completion with SIEM demonstrator

Okt. 8, 2015,

All working packages and reports have been completed aside from a few small details. That goal was reached despite of project presentations at several international conferences (D.A.CH Security and IDAACS 2015). Lately, project partners especially concentrated on the commissioning of the...

SIMU project at the IDAACS conference 2015

Okt. 2, 2015,

Main goal of the IDAACS conference (http://idaacs.net/2015) is to create a forum for high-quality reports from state-of-the-art-theories, technologies, and applications. This year only 71 % of submitted lectures were accepted. One of those was held by the Trust@HsH research group about the...

SIMU project contribution at conference D.A.CH Security 2015

Sep. 11, 2015,

D.A.CH Security was well attended and attractive for many interesting lectures this year. Topics of presentations were for example passing on in the cloud, theat situation of SAP systems, SIEM system field report, and authorization management for the internet of things. The lecture by the...

VisITMeta and SIMU have been presented at GraMSec 2015 in Verona

Sep. 7, 2015,

The paper depicts the general idea behind VisITMeta, a successfully finished research project aimed at visualizing IF-MAP metadata graphs. Within the outlook on future work, the integration of VisITMeta into the SIMU project was explained, where the visualization of metadata graphs is used to...

SIMU project presented at ICSI-CCI Conference in China

Jul. 10, 2015,

The term „Swarm Intelligence“ means collective behavior in decentral, self-organizing systems. The concept deals with implementation of distributed artificial intelligence and came into being in the area of roboter systems in 1989. Main goal is to model complex intermapped software...

SIMU project met in Berlin and is on schedule

Jun. 24, 2015,

Until the end of June all partners will have finished the development process. The working package of the analysis and evaluation phase, that begins in August, includes the evaluation of the demonstrator which is why all partner modules need to be installed in one testbed at Fraunhofer SIT....

SIEM-GUI awarded as one of the best innovations for SME

Mai 6, 2015,

Since twelve years the Innovationspreis-IT (IT innovation award) is issued by initiative Mittelstand. The independent jury, composed of professors, researchers, industry representatives and journalists, chooses innovations with the highest utility value for medium-sized enterprises within 41...

SIMU project was presented at RSA conference 2015

Mai 5, 2015,

Within the scope of the seminar „TCG: Should We Trust Mobile Computing, IoT and the Cloud? No, But There Are Solutions” DECOIT and University Hanover presented two demo-showcases including results of the SIMU and iMonitor (www.imonitor-project.de) research projects. The...

7th project meeting took place at DECOIT GmbH in Bremen

Apr. 4, 2015,

The third work package has almost been finalized. Only the description of metadata and the report need to be completed. Since the beginning of this year all project partners have worked on the report of the fourth work package which documents all development steps. The fourth work package report is...

SIMU project was presented at CeBIT 2015 by DECOIT GmbH

Mär. 25, 2015,

This year's main topics at CeBIT were Digital Transformation, "Internet of Things", IT Security and Unified Communications. As digitalization of economy is going ahead, a new term for it was invented - the d!conomy. This term should express IT progress on one hand but on the other hand also...

SIEM workshop with Telco Tech

Jan. 27, 2015,

Telco Tech is interested in a German security solution. But SIEM systems are not yet easy to promote. Educational work in this field is necessary. The SIMU approach is that interesting for Telco Tech that the producer would like to integrate parts of it into his own development. The SIEM solution...

6th SIMU project meeting in Hanover

Dez. 16, 2014,

The development of SIEM collectors is well advanced as regards the IF-MAP clients of DECOIT and University Hanover can be used already. Additionally, DECOIT will start developing an Android client which will support IF-MAP and Icinga. That way, events can also be involved via smartphone. The File...

SIMU demonstrator was presented at expert meeting successfully

Nov. 26, 2014,

Different projects had the opportunity to present their contents on stage, as DECOIT GmbH presented the SIMU project and pointed out the necessity of SIEM systems. One question was why many attacks can only be recognized by combining results of several different security systems. Furthermore, the...

SIMU project was presented at open it berlin by DECOIT GmbH

Nov. 21, 2014,

The event was kicked off by DECOIT GmbH introducing the topics SIEM systems and monitoring. Prof. Dr. Kai-Oliver Detken asserted that it took a long time for pro-active monitoring to finally be a permanent part of company networks. And there is still room for improvement, although there are...

5th SIMU project meeting at Fraunhofer SIT in Darmstadt

Sep. 29, 2014,

The third work package (conception of future SIEM components) is progressing well and intermeshes seamlessly with the fourth work package which is aimed at the development of security components. The fourth work package has already been approached in order to be able to present first results soon....

SIMU project presentation at the D.A.CH Security 2014

Sep. 19, 2014,

The D.A.CH Security conference started with SIEM systems, meaning large databases with upstream analysis systems, which usually offer links to asset inventory data. SIEM systems are used for attack identification, logging of priviliged rights usage, compliance and awareness. Many systems exist on...

Trust@HsH publishes research results on storage of MAP data

Sep. 4, 2014,

Visualization of MAP data is challenging due to its highly dynamic topology and the mapping of logical nodes onto physical devices. Also, data in a MAP server is volatile and there is no standardized way to preserve and review changes or previous states of a MAP graph. The work for the paper...

HsH participates in TCG Members Meeting 2014 in Barcelona

Jul. 15, 2014,

Leonard Renners and Thomas Rossow from the Trust@HsH research group participated in this year’s June meeting that was held in Barcelona from 24th until 26th of July. They endorsed the new developments within the Trust@HsH group (e.g. in...

4th project meeting took place at NCP engineering in Nürnberg

Jun. 13, 2014,

The fourth project meeting of the research project SIMU was held in Nürnberg at NCP engineering, project partner and VPN specialist. This time discussions were focused on the conception of SIEM architecture based on IF-MAP as well as on current assignments within the third work package. The...

SIMU was presented at the 33rd BremSec-Forum in Bremen

Mai 16, 2014,

The threat of cybercrime aimed at companies in Germany grows continuously. That is the conclusion to which the German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation arrives. Security systems, such as firewalls, virus scanners, spam filters, VPN gateways are indeed used by SME but work typically isolated...

PlugFest 2014 organized by TCG took place at Fraunhofer SIT in Darmstadt

Apr. 4, 2014,

From April 1st to 3rd the PlugFest of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) took place in Darmstadt at Fraunhofer SIT. Company representatives and researchers tested their developments in the area of IF-MAP during three days in order to analyze the interoperability between all different components. This...

Trust@HsH is interviewed at the CeBIT 2014 regarding "Mobile Security"

Mär. 27, 2014,

The research group Trust@HsH from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover presented the SIMU project at the CeBIT 2014, as already reported. Within this scope Prof. Josef von Helden, head of the research group, was interviewed on the topic “Mobile Security”. The entire...

Research group Trust@HsH at RSA conference 2014

Mär. 21, 2014,

The RSA conference, which takes place annually since 1993 and attracts approximately 25,000 visitors, is one of the largest and most important IT security conferences worldwide. The largest producers of IT security display their solutions there and some of the most popular researchers, who work in...

Trust@HsH presents SIMU concepts at exposition CeBIT

Mär. 20, 2014,

Research group Trust@HsH demonstrated to the interested audience of experts how open source developments, which derived from successfully completed projects, can contribute to improve the security of corporate networks. The concepts for implementation of SIEM systems for SME, developed in the SIMU...

3rd SIMU project meeting took place at project partner macmon secure

Mär. 17, 2014,

The work progress within the SIMU project proceeds on schedule. The second work package (AP2) “conception” will be completed in March in order to start preparing development assignments of the third work package (AP3). First international publication was accomplished in February at the...

First proposal of planned SIEM architecture

Dez. 19, 2013,

During the meeting Fraunhofer SIT and DECOIT GmbH looked at architectures of the former projects ESUKOM and MASSIF. Although both projects were conducted separately from each other a certain resemblance was noted. Both architectures possess a MAP-server, monitoring and sensor gateways. Both of them...

2nd project meeting at DECOIT GmbH in Bremen

Dez. 11, 2013,

The second project meeting between SIMU partners took place at the building of the BITZ (Innovation and Technology Center Bremen) because the number of participants exceeded the capacity of DECOIT’s available rooms. DECOIT GmbH, consortium manager of the project, was the host of this...

Kick-off-meeting at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover

Dez. 11, 2013,

Security systems, such as firewalls, virus scanners, spam filters, VPN gateways are indeed used by SME but work typically isolated of each other. However, many attacks can only be identified by combining data of different systems. Even if an attack has been identified, the counteractions are often...