[HGI-News-de] HGI Kolloquium Do, 4.2.10: Security Challenges in Supply Chain Management von Florian Kerschbaum

[Newsletter des Horst Görtz Instituts]

Hallo,

im Rahmen des HGI Kolloquiums "Aktuelle Themen der IT-Sicherheit" wird am kommenden *Donnerstag* der folgende Vortrag angeboten:

Florian Kerschbaum (SAP):
*On Security Challenges in Supply Chain Management*

Termin:
Donnerstag, den 4. Februar 2010 um 11.00 Uhr (*s.t.*)
Raum: IC 4/161

Interessierte sind herzlich eingeladen!

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Abstract:
Supply Chain Management (SCM) concerns the planning, execution and monitoring of goods exchanged between companies. Although companies need to collaborate in order to produce the final good satisfying customer demand, they do not trust each other beyond the necessary exchanges. SCM research has recognized for a long time that enhanced collaboration can reduce costs and increase service levels, but this is prevented due to the lack of trust. Modern cryptographic techniques can help protect data against unauthorized disclosure and modification lowering the hurdle for adoption. We examine applications in item-level tracking using radio frequency identification (RFID). Goods are equipped with uniquely identifiable RFID tags which are read by the companies throughout the supply chain and stored in the company's local database. Supply chain partners may later access data at their partners, but need to authenticate. Storing a shared password on the tag is clearly insecure, since it may be accessed by a rogue reader or untracably leaked by an insider. We present an advanced construction. In some cases companies are reluctant to share data in their databases even with their partners. Then stronger security mechanisms are needed in which case one must carefully balance security, performance and functionality.    

Bio: Florian is a senior researcher and project lead at SAP Research Karlsruhe. His research is concerned with security for collaborative business applications with minimal trust assumptions about the business partner's behaviour. His approach is interdisciplinary in nature between business administration, computer science and economics and his methodology ranges from theoretical analysis to practical experimentation. In his Ph.D. he designed and built a privacy-preserving benchmarking platform. Afterwards he became coordinator of the EU funded collaborative research project SecureSCM. He also holds a teaching appointment at the Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State University Mannheim.
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Vorankündigung: 
3. März 2010 (Mittwoch!): Axel Poschmann(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Side-Channel Resistant Crypto for less than 2,300 GE

Informationen über die nächsten geplanten Vorträge im Rahmen des HGI Kolloquiums sind auch im Web zu finden:
http://www.hgi.rub.de/hgi/hgi-seminar/aktuelles


Viele Grüße,
Timo