On March 17, 2025, the University of Murcia (UMU) and UBITECH actively participated in Info Day: "Cybersecurity and IoT in Industry 5.0," an event organized by the CERTIFY project. This event highlighted key topics highly relevant to CASTOR, including attestation and the secure management of IoT devices, which are essential for ensuring trust and security...
University of Murcia presented the concept of the Device Security Passport (DSP) — a digital document that consolidated all relevant security-related information about IoT devices, generated within the supply chain. The concept behind the DSP was connected to ideas discussed in the context of CASTOR, particularly the collection of various types of evidence related to...
At the CompSys Conference, a key event dedicated to advances in computer systems and architectures, Prof. Dr. Andy Pimentel from the University of Amsterdam presented an overview of the latest research activities within the Parallel Computing Systems (PCS) group. The presentation highlighted ongoing work across the group’s portfolio, including contributions to the CASTOR Horizon project.
UBITECH and SURREY represented CASTOR at the Trusted Computing Group physical meeting (held in the Netherlands) and talked about the advanced (composite) attestation and crypto structures designed for safeguarding the state verification of each routing element, which, in turn, allow the trust characterization of the entire path to be established. During the event, Stefanos Vasileiadis...
On 4 June, the Technical University of Iași attended the TECHNOVERS exhibition, where it showcased ongoing research and innovation initiatives. During the event, the CASTOR project was presented to interested visitors, offering an overview of its objectives, technologies, and expected impact. The exhibition brought together academic representatives, industry stakeholders, and the general public, providing organisations...
CASTOR actively participated in the EuCNC & 6G Summit 2025, which took place from June 3–6 in Poznan, Poland. On June 4, the project contributed to the session "Network Softwarization Technology Enablers for Trust and Security in B5G and 6G Networks", where Ioannis Krontiris delivered a forward-looking presentation on “Trusted Path Routing & Path Validation...
UBITECH attended the IETF 123 Physical Meeting, where the team presented its vision on extending Trusted Path Routing, a key step towards enhancing the security and resilience of modern networks. The goal was to motivate the need towards incrementing the static nature of the current secure routing mechanisms, already established in the TPR Draft, with...
At the 11th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization, the University of Murcia participated in two workshops: NAIFNET – The First Workshop on Native AI in Future Networks Including 6G (https://naifnet.github.io/), where it served as co-chair and delivered presentations on an AI/ML framework for resource optimization, linked to CASTOR's work on orchestration, and the SecSOFT workshop...
Workshop on Cybersecurity Innovation and Resilience (CYBERSHIELD) UBITECH, CASTOR’s coordinator, presented a new paper, “Trust or Bust: Reinforcing Trust-Aware Path Establishment with Implicit Attestation Capabilities,” at the prestigious IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR). The paper addresses a critical challenge in today's digital landscape: ensuring trust and security across the entire...
At the 34th USENIX Security Symposium, NVIDIA presents BlueGuard, a new introspection architecture using a physically isolated Data Processing Unit (DPU) to perform full system introspection of the host system, including VMs running on it. By using a DPU, BlueGuard enables secure inspection of bare-metal systems while leveraging the hardware accelerators available in recent DPUs....
CASTOR at ITS World Congress: Spotlight on V2X Innovation Commsignia, a key partner in CASTOR Horizon program, will take centre stage at the ITS World Congress, Atlanta, both as exhibitor and panel organizer on the future of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) technologies in the US and Europe. While the US pushes forward with its National Deployment Plan, Europe...
CASTOR consortium partners participated in the 2025 International Conference on Information and Communication Security (ICICS 2025), held in Nanjing, China, where they presented research advancing trust, privacy, and post-quantum security. Prof. Liqun Chen (University of Surrey) delivered the keynote “Post-Quantum Group-Oriented Anonymous Signatures from Symmetric Primitives,” discussing the evolution of anonymous signature schemes such as...
