A knowledge and competencies acquired in R&D projects 


Since the creation of itrust in 2007, the company has been involved in medium and large international and European R&D projects. This research activity allows itrust to participate to the elaboration of security systems of tomorrow. These innovations and the driving force of itrust that uses the knowledge acquired to create security tools such as:
  • TRICK Light: a quantitative risk assessment tool based on the ISO 27005 methodology;
  • TRICK Tester: a platform for the simplification of vulnerability and intrusion testing;
  • ISIS: a Content Management System (CMS) and a Peer2Peer sharing tool dedicated to the security information exchanges.

With these tools, itrust provides solutions for evolving security concerns and position itself on the market by proposing a certain flexibility, a high adaptability to customer's security requirements and a rigour imposed by the security business.
The topics covered by itrust on the research projects are:
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection: FP7 MICIE
  • Security Assurance: Celtic BUGYO Beyond
  • Secure Location Sharing: FP7 Liveline
  • Localisation Data assurance: ESA LASP
  • Security Tests Automation: ITEA2 DIAMONDS

The R&D projects in which itrust consulting is involved are part of these programs:
  • FP7: The Seventh Framework Programme for research and technological development (FP7) is the European Union's chief instrument for funding research over the period 2007 to 2013;
  • Celtic-Plus: Celtic-Plus is an industry-driven European research initiative to define, perform and finance through public and private funding common research projects in the area of telecommunications, new media, future Internet, and applications & services focusing on a new "Smart Connected World" paradigm;
  • ITEA2: The follow-up to the successful ITEA programme, is a strategic pan-European programme for advanced pre-competitive R&D in Software-intensive Systems and Services (SiSS);
  • European Space Agency (ESA): Through various programs, the ESA funds (through the Luxembourg contribution) R&D projects related to space exploration, services...