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ObjectSecurity has carried out many projects in telecoms since 2000. mainly for Deutsche Telekom T-Systems Enterprise Services. The particular focus was on secure mobile application platforms.
 COACH: Secure distributed service platform for telecommunications
ObjectSecurity participated in the very successful and well-received 2-year IST project COACH (Component Based Open Source Architecture for Distributed Telecom Applications) as a work-package leader and a significant contributor. As part of the project, two complete CORBA Component Model (CCM) tool chains were developed in Java and in C++, and demo applications from the telecom domain are implemented. Also, testing of distributed component-based systems was covered by the project. ObjectSecurity contributed a new and innovative security framework for distributed systems that is inspired by model-driven software engineering and a formal calculus for security. In addition, ObjectSecurity contributed to several security-related OMG standards and ensured that the C++ ORB used in COACH, MICO, met the requirements of the CCM implementers and users. As part of the project, we also contributed a state of the art security analysis. During the project we worked extensively with Deutsche Telekom T-Systems on secure service platforms. As a part of Deutsche Telekom’s Secure CORBA project, ObjectSecurity developed MICOSec, the first Open Source implementation of the CORBA security services and one of the first implementations of the CSIv2 protocol. In addition to internal projects at Deutsche Telekom and ObjectSecurity (a secure platform for mobile applications and research in CCM security) MICOSec is used in academic and industrial projects. Since 2002, ObjectSecurity is the official maintainer and main contributor of the Open Source CORBA ORB “MICO”. The cooperation with Deutsche Telekom has continued in several projects in CORBA security, Open Source software, mobile secure computing and ubiquitous computing. As part of the project, we also did a comprehensive CORBA security analysis. This work was continued in the EU IST COACH project, where ObjectSecurity, Humbold University, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft FOKUS and T-Systems jointly developed a Secure Parlay platform based on MICO, Qedo and OpenPMF.
GIS prototype platform with Deutsche Telekom T-Systems
We have built a secure geographical information system (GIS) that uses our secure CORBA infrastructure and runs on a PDA. To achieve this, we had to port our entire secure CORBA infrastructure to a Linux based PocketPC. This project was a prototype deployment of our secure mobile CORBA infrastructure.
CORBA development with Deutsche Telekom T-Systems
We have developed many useful additions to the MICO CORBA open source implementation as part of our projects with T-Systems.
Secure CORBA design and development with Deutsche Telekom T-Systems
We have built a complete implementation of a secure CORBA infrastructure. It was initially based on the CORBA security standard, but was enhanced considerably.
Technical security audits for telecommunications etc.
We delivered security audits for several large organisations, involving both IT and non-IT aspects. In particular, we successfully analysed network and distributed systems security.
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