Members of the Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks, prof. Borka Jerman-Blažič and asst. prof. Tomaž Klobučar, have contributed a chapter to the book »Combatting Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism: Challenges, Trends and Priorities« published by Springer. In their work, they identified the major technical challenges and missing solutions in the field of cybercrime and cyberterrorism. The identified solutions include technologies and techniques for computer fraud prevention, investigation and detection methods and tools, and crime prevention methods that address human elements.

The book is an important contribution in the fight against cybercrime and cyberterrorism and will help in more effective research and development of cybercrime prevention technologies and methods, development of investigation tools and better understanding of teh cybercrime. The main target group of the book are information security researchers, law enforcement agencies and research policy makers.

Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks at Jožef Stefan Institute is organizing together with Ministry of Public Administration the final general assembly of the STORK 2.0 project. The assembly will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 16. and 17. September 2015.

Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks  obtained five new research projects from the 7th EU Framework Programme and the ISEC (Prevention of and fight against crime) programme in 2013. Two of them received the highest evaluation scores among more than 100 project proposals: EmployID in technology enhanced learning and COURAGE in security.

Goals of the COURAGE, REDIRNET and DFET projects are to deliver a measured, comprehensive, relevant research agenda for cyber crime and cyber terrorism, create an emergency responder data interoperability network, and create new cloud-based training methods/techniques to support judicial authorities, law enforcement agencies and associated stakeholders in the fight against cybercrime.

EmployID will support and facilitate the learning process of Public Employment Services (PES) practitioners in their professional identity transformation process, while  in the RENATECH project we have already organised very successful researchers’ night.

COURAGE, REDIRNET, EmployID and DFET will start their activities at the beginning of 2014.