Trust@HsH participates at TNC Spring Plugfest 2014 in Darmstadt

The Trust@HsH research group participated for the third time in a row at the TNC Spring Plugfest 2014, which was hosted by Fraunhofer SIT in Darmstadt, from April 1st till April 3rd. At the event we had the chance to test the interoperability of our latest IF-MAP software components with the components and products of other TCG members.

We basically tested our ifmapj-based MAP clients and our MAP server irond in their latest version, as well as a few yet unreleased components.

Thanks to Ronald Marx and the team from Fraunhofer SIT and Matt Tracy from the Trusted Computing Group for organizing and hosting the event.

Please also have a look at the news on the plugfest at the SIMU project site.

Interview with Prof. Dr. Josef von Helden on Mobile Security

We have just released an interview that was shot on this year’s CeBIT. The head of our research group Prof. Dr. Josef von Helden speaks about mobile security and privacy issues related to today’s usage of smartphones.

RSA Conference Demo available

The demonstration “Near Real-time Network Security with Open Source Tools”, which we showed at this year’s RSA Conference, is now available. In our demo section you can find the complete description to setup the demo.

ifmapcli 0.1.1 released

We have released a new version of our IF-MAP command line toolset ifmapcli.

Changes and new features include

• new CLI tools for device-characteristic, enforcement-report, location, wlan-information, unexpected-behaviour
• use of a new parser for command line arguments: argparser4j
• refactored the code to minimize redundancy (and allow to implement future tools in a simpler manner)

From this version on, ifmapcli provides CLI tools for all the metadata specified in TNC IF-MAP Metadata for Network Security in version 1.1.

Some impressions from Cebit 2014

Here are some impressions of the Trust@HsH Cebit booth in Hall 7, Booth C28. Please also have a look at the Cebit news on the SIMU website.

Meet the Trust@HsH team on CeBIT 2014

The Trust@HsH research group will present their work in IT and Network Security on this year’s CeBIT as one of 27 exhibitors of the joint booth of Germany’s federal state of Lower Saxony. Core themes of the joint booth are information security, law enforcement, IT and government solutions.

True to the booth’s motto “We have foresight”, the Trust@HsH research group will showcase their current work in Security Information and Event Management (see SIMU project ) and in visualization of network security (see VisITMeta project).

You can watch a high level demonstration of our open source IF-MAP tools or discuss the nitty details of their concepts or even implementation with our developers who will be present over the entire duration of the fair.

The Trust@HsH team will be happy to welcome you in Hall 7, at booth c28!

Trust@HsH at RSA Conference 2014

The Trust@HsH research group, in person by Bastian Hellmann and Ralf Steuerwald, participated at this years RSA conference in San Francisco (24th-28th February).

At the TCG associated seminar “Get proactive with security” on Monday 24th, Trust@HsH presented a live demonstration of a BYOD-scenario including software of the iron* software suite as well as the StrongSwan VPN-software by Hochschule Rapperswil and the Android IF-MAP client by DECOIT GmbH.

Demonstration details (including virtual machines and setup instructions) will be released in the next few weeks.

The conference itself was a perfect opportunity to meet some fellow TCG members and other network security professionals and discuss our approaches and current work, as well as attending talks and panels with security experts like Bruce Schneier, Adi Shamir and Whitfield Diffie.

Here are some general impressions of the city of San Francisco.

New releases of all ifmapj-based software

As we mentioned in our last news about the release of ifmapj 1.0.0, we successfully updated all of our ifmapj-based tools to make use of ifmapj 1.0.0.

All of our Github master branches for the following software were adjusted to use ifmapj 1.0.0, and therefore use the new package structure (de.hshannover.f4.trust).

• ifmapj-examples

• irondemo (uses the new Github URLs)

• ifmapcli

• ironvas

• ironcontrol

• irondhcp

• irongui

• irondetect

• VisITMeta (note: as we changed our REST-interface and not adapted the GUI, the GUI does not work at the moment: will be fixed in early January)