Research Topics
The Systems and Data Security team specializes in cyber-security in general and in data security in particular. Its research themes are articulated around two axes: (1) data security: privacy, anonymity and secure computation and (2) security & cryptography: protocol security, access control and traceability. These two thematic axes are supported by a transversal axis modelling and formalization of knowledge (epistemic logic) and systems (temporal logic, graphs, automata).
Data security
This axis concerns privacy in a broader sense and secure computation. In particular, the team is currently working on:
- Secure and private computation
- Secure MapReduce computation with no information leakage
- SQL requests computation in a distributed environment relying on secure hardware
- Secure and private computation of influence metrics
- Anonymisation
- in linked data
- in presence of customized user constraints
- Privacy, minimal exposure of personal information in automatized decision processes
Involved permanent members: Pascal Berthomé, Cédric Eichler, Sabine Frittela, Benjamin Nguyen
System security
The SDS team was a pioneer in France in the domain of mandatory access control. Recently, the team got involved on IoT and blockchain. The current research directions in this axis are:
- Mandatory Access control
- MAC in Clouds, in the Java Virtual Machine and on Android using static rules
- MAC using automata in embedded real-time systems
- IoT security
- Interoperability, authentification, confidentiality and integrity in heterogeneous systems
- Secure payments using blockchain
- Tractability in IoT using blockchain
Involved permanent members: Jérémy Briffaut, Xavier Bultel, Vincent Hugot, Christian Toinard
Current Research Projects
- H2020 RISE MOSAIC, leader: CSIS, Spain, 29 european partners, including INSA CVL (local contact: Dr. Sabine Frittella)
- ANR SEND-UP: SEmantic Network of Data: Utility and Privacy , leader: Dr. Cédric Eichler (INSA CVL), partners: Université d’Orléans, Université de Grenoble-Alpes
- ANR PRELAP: Probabilistic Epistemic Logic Applied to Privacy, leader: Dr. Sabine Frittella (INSA CVL), partners: Université de Versailles, CEA LIST, Utrecht University (Netherland), University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), Chapman University (USA), Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
- APR IR ADOPTER: Analyse de DOnnées issues de TEsts volontaiRes (cosmetics data and privacy), leader: Pr. Benjamin Nguyen, partner: Université d’Orléans
- APR IA Ethnos, leader: Pr. Christian Toinard, partner: Université de Tours
- Projet Nusanthara MAMAS: Massive Anonymous Mammography Analysis and Storage, leader: Dr. Laurent Bobelin (INSA CVL), partner: Universitas Prasetiya Mulya (Indonesia)
- PHC Van Gogh (leader: Dr. Sabine Frittella)
Past Research Projects
- FUY ATELYN (local contact: Dr. Jérémy Briffaut) , ended in 2020
- IOT-CIA-DATA: IoT Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (local contact: Dr. Cédric Eichler), ended in 2020
- Seed4C, european project (local contact: Pr. Christian Toinard), ended in 2015
- INRIA-CAPRIS (local contact: Pr. Benjamin Nguyen), ended in 2016
- APR Girafon (local contact: Pr. Benjamin Nguyen), ended in 2018
- ANR Lyrics (Lightweught privacY-enhancing cRypography for mobIle Contactless Services), leader: Pr. Jean-François Lalande (INSA CVL), ended in 2015
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