Providing security at all levels within the multi-platform cloud-computing environment is still not considered to be properly solved due to a variety of problems arising from technical and human-based sources. We have developed authentication-and-authorization solution based on the Single Sign-On (SSO) approach for cloud-service users and administrators in a multi-platform environment. The system developed enables user authentication for clouds provided as Infrastructure as a Service system built up from different OS systems. The solution enables the use of different services based on credentials that are authenticated only once and enable simple and efficient administration of the relevant data.

MUPOSS solution was published by Cigoj, Primož, and Borka Jerman Blažič. “An Authentication and Authorization Solution for a Multiplatform Cloud Environment.” Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective 24.4-6 (2015): 146-156. This article was recently cited by Sette, Ioram S., David W. Chadwick, and Carlos AG Ferraz. “Authorization Policy Federation in Heterogeneous Multicloud Environments.” IEEE Cloud Computing 4.4 (2017): 38-47.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gWUxI737JI

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.

Within the EU actions dedicated to the European month of Information security (October 2015) and the 25th Anniversary of Internet Society, Slovenia (ISOC-SI) Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks, Institute Jožef Stefan, in cooperation with ISOC-SI and the EU Digital Forensics Educational Community will organize on October 23rd, 2015 an event “Information Security and Digital Forensics.” The event will take place at Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, Ljubljana.

More information about the event is available at www.digsec.si.

Jožef Stefan Institute, Edinburgh Napier University and Stockhoklm University has launched the new International Cyber Academy on 6 May 2015.
More information: http://thecyberacademy.org/ and cyber_academy-for-web-page.

Thursday, 22. January 2015
Jožef Stefan Institute

The Foundations and Practice of Digital Forensic Seminar, organised within the DFET project, took place in Ljubljana on Thursday 22. January 2015. Speakers gave an excellent, tought-provoking and educational presentations by the audience of more then 20 people, representing law enforcement and academics and students from several universities.

The purpose of the seminar was to present participants the foundations of digital forensics and to acquaint them with practical concrete examples. The seminar was intended to anyone who is interested in digital forensics and wants to master both methodological, technical and legislation basics that are necessary for operating in this field, as well as criminal technics, forensics tools and solving practical examples. This kind of seminar is useful for participants who are dealing with various cyber crime methods in their everyday work-field, or otherwise dealt with this kind of topic.

The seminar opened with Borka Jerman Blazic’s keynote introduction to the seminar, followed by four presentations. The first session focussed on Cybercrime education with presentation of Blaž Ivanc. After the break the second session started with Security methods and cyber crime prevention, presented by Tomaž Klobučar. Followed by Digital forensics: methods and legislation presentation by Janko Šavnik. The first session after lunch focussed on the forensic presentations. Janko Šavnik spoke about Digital forensics tools in practice, then Primož Cigoj outlined the EDUFORS cloud-based platform and gave instructions for the use of forensic tools.

Throughout the seminar, speakers took questions from the audience and interesting discussions took place. At the end of seminar there was practical exercises on a cloud platform, where audiance was able to verify their gained experiences during the seminar.