Université Côte d’Azur, through its IMREDD Innovation and Partnerships Institute, and the National Telecommunications Institute of Brazil (Inatel) are launching the Security Design Lab partnership, with the support of cybersecurity company SIKUR. The objective is to contribute with the latest security technology for the prevention of breaches in IoT environments for businesses and governments in this era of hyper-connectivity. Security Design Lab (SDL) is a vast collaboration network with UCA / IMREDD, which will generate discussions and disseminate knowledge to improve the security of IoT devices from the source.

The launch of the partnership took place during a Online event this Thursday, 8 July, which was attended by Paulo Alvim, Secretary for Entrepreneurship and Innovation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil (MCTI); José Gustavo Gontijo, Director of the Department of Digital Sciences, Technologies and Innovations of the MCTI; Marcos Mandacaru, Special Advisor to the Vice-Governor of the State of Minas Gerais; Paulo Venancio, Presales Director of Digital Solutions at Embratel; Marcelo Motta, Global Director of Cybersecurity at Huawei; Carlos Nazareth Motta Marins, Director of Inatel; Guilherme Aquino, Deputy Coordinator of the CxSC; Paulo Moura, Head of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at IMREDD; and Fábio Fisher, CEO of SIKUR.

This partnership is well suited to address the major security challenges related to mobility, autonomous vehicles, smart homes, smart cities, the smart grid, Industry 4.0, and the trends of «remote work and access». The SDL is committed to ensuring privacy and security in highly distributed environments, by offering advanced studies in authentication, privileged access, and H2H and M2M digital interactions, while developing applied research in artificial intelligence, mobile edge computing, and quantum cybersecurity.

Paulo Moura, Head of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at IMREDD, believes that «the most important problem on the market today is how to ensure the interoperability, security, and confidentiality of data, applications, software, and hardware, by integrating under the same umbrella, IoT devices, the network, the cloud, and human authentication.» Paulo is confident in the potential of this innovative laboratory to tackle these urgent issues, which are at the heart of the industry.