"Security Engineering of Service-Based IT Systems"
(Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel)

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a newly emerging paradigm for distributed computing and e-business processing that utilizes services as fundamental elements to enable building agile networks of collaborating business applications distributed within and across organizational boundaries. Services are self-contained, platform-independent computational elements that can be described, published, discovered, orchestrated and deployed for the purpose of developing distributed applications across networks, including the Internet. However, before such Service-Oriented IT Systems can be used in practice various security issues have to be addressed and many demanding security problems have to be solved. 
In the HPI-Research School we actually plan to investigate  

• Service Privacy and Security
• Security Aspects in Service Composition
• Deployment of Security Technologies like Digital Signatures 
• Identity Management and Trust Delegation and other interesting and demanding security aspects in service-oriented computing
• and more ...

Reserarch is focused on designing, implementing and evaluating various security technologies as well as on applying these technologies in telemedicine.
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