Descripción del proyecto
Una formación avanzada en tecnologías de la cadena de bloques
El internet de las cosas (IdC) permite a miles de millones de dispositivos conectarse en línea. Sin embargo, un aumento de las amenazas digitales muestra la gran importancia de garantizar la seguridad del IdC. Las tecnologías de la cadena de bloques (TCB) son una solución prometedora para proteger el IdC, lo cual favorecerá que los sectores industrial y universitario conciban y diseñen nuevas aplicaciones de TCB. Sin embargo, existen pocos expertos en TCB. El proyecto BAnDIT (Advanced Blockchain Attacks and Defence Techniques), financiado con fondos europeos, propone una innovadora red de formación en investigación impulsada por la Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, España) en el sector universitario y por Nokia Bell Labs en el sector privado. BAnDIT organizará actividades de formación transversal y permitirá a investigadores noveles acceder a ecosistemas actuales de cadena de bloques.
Objetivo
As we move to the Internet-of-Things, the number of devices which will be connecting to the Internet – many of them without any direct human control - is estimated in billions in the immediate future. In October 2016, the Mirai Botnet performed the largest Denial-of-Service attack in history using infected consumer devices, showing how pressing is the need to properly secure the IoT. In parallel, a new technology has emerged which will be key in any future development in this sense: the blockchain. Initially designed as the backbone of Bitcoin a decade ago, Blockchain Technologies (BCT) are seen now as powerful digital abstraction of trust and stand out as a promising alternative to deal with it in the online world. Several initiatives are moving towards using BCT for securing the IoT, and the academic and industrial sector are participating in a race to envision and design new applications of BCT. However, there are few experts with a solid scientific background in IT Technologies who also have first-hand knowledge of the needs of the industry and who understand the financial and regulatory challenges of BCT. These professionals can be key to articulate converge of the BCT and the IoT technologies, to envision and create new business opportunities for the European economy.
BAnDiT or Advanced Blockchain Attacks and Defense Techniques is an innovative research training network with two beneficiary organizations, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in the academic sector and Nokia Bell Labs in the private sector, which aims at bridging this gap.
UPF will contribute through the network her knowledge and research experience in the departments of Information and Communication Technologies, Economics and Law and Nokia its hands-on experience in BCT. Partner organisations will contribute with transversal training events and providing access to existing blockchain ecosystems to test the results of the research conducted by the ESRs.
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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinador
08002 Barcelona
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