Our Research Projects
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Good solutions for complex tasks
There is often no direct route to quickly achieving goals in IT security. The tasks are mainly complex and a lot of know-how, experience and endurance are necessary to find intelligent solutions. However, it is just these tasks that fascinate us – and it is results from this type of research that repeatedly allow the development of useful innovations and lead to improvements in the security of modern information technology.
In order to find good solutions, it often makes sense to combine differing skills, viewpoints and resources and for this reason GeNUA participates in research projects. Here we work together with universities, research institutions and other organizations, in order to solve fundamental problems in IT security. We exchange know-how with others taking part and discuss the results obtained, with all parties profiting from the knowledge we gain. The sponsored projects therefore make a valuable contribution to knowledge transfer as well as strengthening the role of Germany as an economic and research center.
Please direct queries about our research projects to our Technical Ambassador:
Alexander von Gernler
Technical Ambassador
tel +49 89 991950-0
alexander_gernler@genua.eu
Active Project Participation
 | Security framework for VoIP |
Project SUNsHINE involves the development of a security framework for recognizing and preventing potentially fraudulent attacks centered on the widely used Voice over IP (VoIP) communication. In this project we are cooperating with the University of Duisburg-Essen, Fraunhofer FOKUS and the ISACO GmbH. As firewall specialists, our main interest in this project is packet analysis of VoIP protocols. Project SUNsHINE will last from May 2011 to April 2013 and is supported by the Federal German Ministry of Education and Research.
PADIOFIRE: Web 2.0-Firewall
The goal of the PADIOFIRE project is to develop a new type of firewall for the comprehensive analysis of Web 2.0 applications. This is necessary, as the current generation of firewalls cannot analyze all protocols – in particular Web 2.0 protocols that are nested within one another in the application layer. Our partners on this project are the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus and the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. GeNUA is responsible for the asynchronous coupling of the firewall and the analysis mechanisms. PADIOFIRE started in July 2011 and will be supported for two years by the Federal German Ministry of Education and Research.
vmFIRE: Firewall for Virtualization Hosts
Several virtual machines can be operated on the same hardware – saving resources and costs. The problem is to secure the virtual machines ‐ the communication within the host system cannot be detected by conventional firewalls. Therefore, the Brandenburg Technical UniversityCottbus and GeNUA will develop a firewall for virtualization hosts. The project "vmFIRE" is estimated for a duration of two years and will be supported by the Federal German Ministry of Education and Research.
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