Other past projects

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CELTIC-PLUS-SENDATE (June 2016 - May 2019) : SENDATE is a cluster project in the frame of EUREKA/ Celtic-Plus. It is funded in Germany, France, Finland, and Sweden. The goal of the SENDATE research program is to provide the scientific, technical, and technological concepts and solutions for:
(i) A clean-slate architecture supporting the application scenario demands
(ii) Intra-DC -security, -control, -management, and -orchestration
(iii) Placement, control, and management of Virtual Network Functions (VNF)
(iv) High speed transport networks to interconnect servers in a DC, data centers together, and the end users.
This includes on the one hand the development of a flexible control-plane using SDN, an on the other hand a powerful data-plane with high flexibility. Security is an integral part of all sub-parts.


H2020-SISSDEN (May 2016 - April 2019) : SISSDEN will improve the cybersecurity posture of EU organisations and citizens through the development of increased situational awareness and the effective sharing of actionable information. SISSDEN builds on the experience of The Shadowserver Foundation, a non-profit organisation well known in the security community for its successful efforts in the mitigation of botnets and fighting malware propagation. SISSDEN will provide free-of-charge victim notification services, and work in close collaboration with Law Enforcement Agencies, national CERTs, network owners, service providers, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and individual citizens.


H2020-SAINT (May 2017 - April 2019) : SAINT proposes to analyse and identify incentives to improve levels of collaboration between cooperative and regulatory approaches to information sharing. Analysis of the ecosystems of cybercriminal activity, associated markets and revenues will drive the development of a framework of business models appropriate for the fighting of cybercrime. The role of regulatory approaches as a cost benefit in cybercrime reduction will be explored within a concept of greater collaboration in order to gain optimal attrition of cybercriminal activities. Experimental economics will aid SAINT in designing new methodologies for the development of an ongoing and searchable public database of cybersecurity indicators and open source intelligence. Comparative analysis of cybercrime victims and stakeholders within a framework of qualitative social science methodologies will deliver valuable evidences and advance knowledge on privacy issues and Deep Web practices. Equally, comparative analysis of the failures of current cybersecurity solutions, products and models will underpin a model for greater effectiveness of applications and improved cost-benefits within the information security industry. The consortium consists of 5 Academic Research Partners, 4 Business firms and 1 LEA all specialized in the area of cyber-security.


ITEA3-MEASURE (December 2015 - February 2019) : The goal of the project is to increase the quality and efficiency as well as reduce the costs and time-to-market of software engineering in Europe. By implementing a comprehensive set of tools for automated and continuous measurement, this project provides a toolset for future projects to properly measure their impact. More importantly, it opens a new field for innovation. The real innovation will be in the advanced analytics of the measurement data enabled by the project. Montimage plans to industrialise its monitoring solution MMT. MMT will be used and adapted to the MEASURE project in order to include new functionalities to perform advanced software engineering monitoring. Montimage's exploitation business plan will be based on an open source solution that will help to attract the interest among open source communities (OSII/OSB) as well as on a commercial licensed solution with advanced capabilities. The MEASURE project will provide an extraordinary opportunity to work with leaders of the software engineering ecosystem, so allowing MTI to test and validate his monitoring solutions with key players from industry and academia. The MEASURE consortium integrates a variety of large companies and SMEs involved in the project in order to cover a widespread set of sectors where it is possible to introduce and test the measuring tools developed in the project.


H2020-MUSA (January 2015 - December 2017) : The main goal of the MUSA project is to support the security-intelligent lifecycle management of distributed applications over heterogeneous cloud resources, through a security framework that includes: a) security-by-design mechanisms to allow application self-protection at runtime, and b) methods and tools for the integrated security assurance in both the engineering and operation of multi-cloud applications. The MUSA consortium has the right balance between academia and industry of all sizes in order to achieve cutting-edge research results in the field of Security Engineering and Cloud Computing. It involves internationally recognized research institutes (TECNALIA, CER ICT), universities (TUT), large companies (CA, LSY), and specialized SMEs (MI, AIMES). All together provide the necessary equilibrium among research interests, industrial significance necessary to achieve ground-breaking results driven by its applicability to real cases, and the engagement of the Open Source communities in order to reach a significant number of contributors and adopters of the MUSA solution. The objective of Montimage is to incorporate the results obtained from the MUSA project to specifically adapt its flagship tool, MMT, for supporting security assurance in cloud and multi-cloud environments by analysing the behaviour of applications and resource use, and integrating enforcement mechanisms.


H2020-CLARUS (January 2015 - December 2017) : The main objective of the CLARUS project is to enhance trust in cloud computing services by developing a secure framework for the storage and processing of data outsourced to the cloud. CLARUS will allow end users to monitor, audit and control the stored data without impairing the functionality and cost-saving benefits of cloud services. Ten partners cover all expertise and competence required to achieve the objectives of the project, which have guided all the time the formation of the consortium. The CLARUS consortium includes two large industrial partners (AKKA and THAL), one industrial SME (MTI), one SME specialised in analysing and communicating ICT across Europe and globally (TR-I), five academic research institutions (URV, OFeV, EURC & KU Leuven), and one end user organisation (FCRB). The European dimension of the CLARUS is ensured by its international composition, with partners coming from four European countries (Spain, Germany, France, UK and Belgium). In this project, Montimage will provide an adapted monitoring solution (based on MMT tool) that will enable analysing the security the cloud services and platform usage, as well as detecting unexpected behaviour. It will also integrate the extraction of metadata needed for security management through the analysis of data from different sources (e.g., system, network, services). Based on the results of such an analysis, the users and/or automated reaction techniques will be able to carry out obfuscation strategies (developed by the project) to improve the security of the user’s data and processing, and improve the level of trust.


ANR-DOCTOR (October 2014 - September 2017) : A new trend in the networking area has emerged in the last few years: the virtualization of network functions. NFV (Network Virtualization Function), as defined by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), is the key technology that leverages this concept. It involves implementing network functions in software that can run on a range of industry standard commodity server hardware. This initiative favours the progressive deployment of new network functions or protocols. The DOCTOR project provides a major push towards the adoption of these new standards by enabling a secure use of virtualized network equipment, which will ease the deployment of novel networking architectures. Monitoring and security are primary operator requirements that need to be assured before deploying new solutions. In DOCTOR, Montimage will investigate how to monitor networks stacks deployed in a virtualized environment, regarding: the type of information to monitor, the way to collect it and the way to analyse/correlate the information gathered. This monitored data will be useful for security purposes. The DOCTOR consortium (Orange, Thales, Montimage, CNRS-LORIA, ICD) is very complementary and provides the necessary expertise and skills: network operator, security experts, monitoring solution providers and recognized academic partners operating security labs at the national level. Montimage will extend its monitoring (MMT) solution with the project's outcomes related to monitoring, security inspection and performance analysis, in order to provide customized solutions in the field of virtualized function monitoring.


In addition, Montimage participated in other national and European projects including: CIP-SWEPT, CIP-ACDC, CELTICPLUS-SAN, ANR-PIMI, CELTICPLUS-MEVICO, FP7-SHIELDS, ANR-WEBMOV.