1. Cyber Security
Solutions from
Tekes Safety and Security Programme

2. Total IT Asset Data Erasure
User need
 A secure, ethical, fast and convenient solution
for the complete erasing of digital data
Solution
 100% data erasure for all IT assets
 Cannot be recovered with any existing
technology
 Most comprehensive certification in the industry
 PC, mobile, file, server, data center and virtual
solutions
 Reports generated for every erasure
Benefits
 Increased data security, improved regulatory compliance
 Reduced costs through more efficient IT asset
administration
Users
 Banking and finance and defense industries
 Government organizations
 IT Asset Disposal professionals
www.blancco.com
Blancco has Certifications and Approvals
from eg.:
- Common Criteria (ISO 15408)
- Communications-Electronics Security
Group
- BSI - Federal Office for Information
Security
- NATO
- TÜV – SÜD
- The Norwegian National Security
Authority
- The USA Department of Defense

3. Flexible and Secure Authentication
User need
 Authentication to Internet services cries for radical
improvement : it is cumbersome and unreliable
Solution
 An authentication solution that integrates with the
current end-user devices and services
Benefits
 Provides usability, security and privacy for all users
of Internet services
 Solves the shortcomings of competing alternatives
in usability, security, and deployment
 Partners onboard have a unique chance to take
advantage of the inexorable paradigm shift of
authentication to Internet services
Users
 All end-users that use Internet services
www.cwc.oulu.fi / Jani Pellikka, jpellikk@ee.oulu.fi

4. Fuzz-o-Matic: Testing-as-a-Service for
Application Security and Robustness
Need
 Discovering dependencies on third-party libraries and applications
 Ensuring that used applications do exactly what they’re supposed to do
 Robustness test your applications and ensure their safety
Approach
 Fuzz-o-Matic is a scalable testing-as-a-service offering
 Scans the existing open source binaries, and then fuzz-tests all potential
interfaces
 Supports Windows, Linux, Android and iOS applications
Benefits
 Reliable and repeatable test results, find the existing vulnerabilities in the
Open Source libraries
 Quality Assurance
Competition
 Some competitors have similar services for known vulnerabilities
Users
 Software and hardware companies, web service providers
www.codenomicon.com

5. Secure Your Mass Memory Devices
User need
 Protect data on various mass memory devices as
well as in could
Solution
 Protect a confidential document by encrypting it
and removing small random parts of it to another
location
Benefits
 Easy to use, high level of protection
 Guarantee data integrity and allowing document
tracking
Users
 Small and larger corporations, government
agencies, etc.
http://www.envaultcorp.com/
A simple but brilliant idea: Protect a
confidential document by first encrypting it
and then removing small random parts of it
to another location.

6. Insertion and Detection of Data in
Portrait Images
Need
 Increase the security of card holder´s image by various digital means, based
on visible and invisible markings (watermarking, guilloches, image hashing)
 The security need arises from increased international crime such as
terrorism, and human and drug trafficking. Technically the need for this type of
solutions arises from two trends: growing ratio of ID and travel documents
being equipped with micro-processor chips; and more widely spread reader
infrastructure for document authentication at borders and by police
Approach
 Define and build a demonstrator
system, including personalization
machine, software solution, and a
product that can be manufactured and
personalized in an industrial manner
Benefits
 Higher security of ID products
 Machine-readability of the security
features
Users
 Governments issuing identity products
www.gemalto.com

7. Information Security Investments
User need
 Today, a widely recognized need for improving the success of
security related investment proposals within the organizations;
how to get more resources for information security (IS)
investments from the company management
Solution
 A risk management tool for measuring the value of IS investments
 Theoretical models, based on empirically testing, for explaining
and predicting investment decisions
Benefits
 Understanding the weaknesses of the current IS investment
decisions, and persuasion methods for gaining resources for IS
investments from the management
Competition
 The existing research on information security investments is not
empirically proved to work in practice
Users
 Information security managers and other employees involved in
the IS decision making within the organizations
www.oulu.fi/english

8. Business-Oriented Identity and Access
Management
User need
 To securely register users into e-services such as extranets and
e-shops
 Identity enrichment with attributes, entitlements and mandates
are needed for e-services to be productive and smooth
Solution
 Business-oriented approach to identity and access
management
 The solution covers stakeholder services including identity
registration and delegated management, together with
extensive authentication and identity federation, identity
enrichment, role management and e-mandates
Benefits
 Security along with efficiency and smoothness for customer eservices
 Savings of 40€ per registration plus 20€ per transaction and
session
Users
 Nordic and European companies
www.ubisecure.com

9. Role-centric Identity
Need
 Organisations have a crucial need for identity
control: Managing large complexities in a continuous
changes
Approach
 A set of innovative and modular security
components and processes to enhance role
management within the infrastructure identity level
and provide innovative role functionalities
Benefits
 Improved capacity to implement and deploy identity
and security mechanisms and solutions  Stronger
competitive position of European industry in the
selected sectors
Users
 Healthcare and public safety organisations using
networks for their business or administration
www.roleid.org

10. Storage Broker for Multi-Cloud
Environments
User need
 Predictable cloud storage for data, accessible at any place with any
device
 Minimized risks, compliance with laws and regulations
 Comparability of cloud providers
Solution
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Multi-cloud storage broker
Cloud vendor benchmarking, user defined Service Level Agreement
Value-adding security services as impartial third party
The methods apply practices used in clean production in the high-tech
industries
Benefits
 Lesser data lock-in and cost of switching cloud providers
 Saving through supported decisions and risk management
Users
 Any large user of cloud services
www.helsinki.fi

11. Future Information Security Trends
User need
 Anticipate information security related risks and
opportunities to appear within 5 – 10 years in Finland
Solution
 A report and a proposal for an on-going trend discovery
process
Benefits
 The results will be public and available for all interested
parties
Users
 All kinds of Finnish organizations
http://magnet.erve.vtt.fi/kasi

12. Modern Network and Application
Information Security Perception
User need
 Network managers require ability to prevent and
detect information security incidents (malware,
DoS attacks, etc.)
 Current solutions provide limited functions, able
to usually detect but not effectively prevent.
 Complexity quickly and changing nature of
network environment are problems
Solution
 More efficient methods are required for
successful monitoring of networks and
applications
 Different statistical approaches were researched
Benefits
 Improved network security monitoring
Users
 Any network administrator with security
requirements
www.vtt.fi

13. Information Security in Industrial
Control Systems
User need
 Plants to gain proper control of security situation
Solution
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Security requirement base for plant ICS
Concept and procedure for site ICS security mapping
Site specific results of overall ICS security mapping
Initial plan for ICS security improvement programs
Benefits
 Support the continuation of the core production &
prevent information security incidents in automation
intensive production
Users
 Industrial production sites, plants, headquarters
www.vtt.fi
Identifying the current major ICS (Industrial
Control System) security & continuity gaps
and bottlenecks of industrial sites.

14. Safety-Critical Software in Machinery
"Bug" control
Need
 Faults in a machine program can cause
severe hazards especially when program
size increases
Fault forecasting
Fault
prevention
Solution
 Ideas for software development model and
criteria for selecting methods according to
the case criticality and developer needs
Fault tolerance
Fault removal
Benefits
 Well-defined and yet flexible development
process means typically lower design costs
 Safety under control means less accidents,
better product confidence and
peace of mind for designers
Users
 Machine builders, software developers
www.vtt.fi
Methods for defect or “bug” control
can be divided into four different
categories

15. Information Security Testing
User Need
 Adequate information security level under continuously
evolving threatscape
Solution
 Novel security testing and network monitoring solutions
→ these include fuzz- and model based testing tools, as
well as test case selection and anomaly detection
methods
Benefits
 Integrity, confidentiality and availability of information,
services and data is maintained at acceptable level
Users
 Software and embedded system vendors and operators
in different fields
 Any party striving to improve information security level
of their products or infrastructure
www.itea2-diamonds.org

16. Know Which Websites To Trust
User need
 Make informed decisions whether to visit a website or not,
especially when visiting unknown sites
 Decisions are made based on website reputation and user
reviews made by millions of users worldwide
Solution
 A crowdsourced service which enables every user to rate and
review a website based on their own experiences These
ratings and reviews help other users to make informed
decisions whether to trust a site or not
 WOT has developed an innovative algorithm that makes the
system reliable and difficult to manipulate
Benefits
 Free and easy to use service which provides traffic-light style
icons (indicating website reputation) next to search results,
social networking sites, online emails and other popular sites
Competition
 WOT is a unique concept with no direct competitors
worldwide. WOT currently co-operates with major internet
players such as Facebook and Mail.ru
Users
 All interested Internet users, currently over 80 million
downloads and over 42 million rated websites
www.mywot.com
The WOT add-on shows you which websites
you can trust based on millions of users'
experiences.
The WOT safe surfing browser tool is easy-touse, fast and completely free.