More information : 

• WIT : http://www.wit.ie/
• TSSG : http://www.tssg.org/
• Security & Trust at TSSG : http://www.tssg.org/research/units/security/
• Rikon : http://www.rikon.ie/

WIT-TSSG is an internationally recognised centre ofexcellence for ICT research and innovation at the
Waterford Institute of Technology. We carry out a wide spectrum of industry-informed research in
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), particularly technologies enabling communications
and information services. In IPaCSO 2 research departments in WIT will actively contribute to the activities.
WIT-TSSG’s Security & Trust Research (STR) group within WIT-TSSG addresses the management of
security and privacy concerns throughout the research life-cycle. This is achieved through the development
of tools and practices to aid organisations and individuals in firstly understanding security, trust and privacy
issues related to their activities and secondly, successfully mitigating against these threats. STR technical
expertise includes building formal security models,predicting trustworthiness based on reputation and
reliability data, compliance evaluation of data handling practices, specifying access control policiesand data
handling rules, formal reasoning over knowledge bases, and the modelling of access control system
performance. In addition, the team has an extensive experience in modelling, software architectures and
software development. STR members have generated several open source projects and this experience and
knowledge places STR in the perfect position to extend or reuse these projects in generic, as well as bespoke,
security related industry focussed solutions. Some of the many security related projects that STR members
have been active in are ComiFin, FutureComm, BIC, EffectsPlus, EternalS, Seccord and Aniketos.
WIT-RIKON located in Waterford Institute of Technology is Ireland’s leading applied Service Innovation
Research Centre encompassing a multidisciplinary team of 25 academic and applied researchers and
industry-focused business developers. Through leveraging pioneering academic and applied innovation
knowledge and expertise, RIKON develops bespoke methodologies and models to assist companies across
all industry sectors to engage in, manage and maximise innovation activities and process. WIT-RIKON
offers a diverse portfolio of applied research services related to end-to-end innovation development and
management at product, technology, service, business, market and consumer levels ranging from ideation
through to business development, market analysis, service design and market development.WIT-RIKON also
continues to expand its project portfolio at a European level via research collaborations with leading
European service innovation research centres and the INTERREG 4A programme: GIFT (Green Innovation
and Future Technologies). WIT-RIKON’s core researchers have published in a wide variety of books,
refereed journals and leading international conferences and are actively involved in informing academia and
policy developments within the service innovation domain and teaching delivery across business, innovation
and IT disciplines.In relation to IPaCSO, WIT-RIKONcontributes an extensive knowledge-base of state-ofthe-art academic and applied research expertise and experience in terms of innovation and business
development processes, frameworks, methodologies and tools, in addition to key expertise around market
and business research. WIT-RIKON has amassed considerable experience and insights into diagnosing,
designing and implementing innovation strategies, frameworks and tools to support industries end-to-end
innovation requirements which are of direct relevance to IPaCSO.