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The professor of the University of Murcia (UMU) has obtained one of the 7 scholarships that have been awarded in the category of Information Technology and Communication, other Engineering and Architecture.
The Leonardo Grants to Researchers and Cultural Creators are financial aid created by the BBVA Foundation, whose objective is to support 50 projects of researchers between 30 and 40 years who are committed to innovation in scientific and technological projects.
Gómez Mármol, explains that this grant has meant "a great joy because to be among the 50 is a recognition of the work, the effort of so much time", and says that now faces, with enthusiasm and desire, the challenge of taking charge for the first Economic management of a research project.
The researcher has studied for years cybersecurity, especially focused on the Internet of Things, an evolution of the network that is taking place right now and that will continue to develop in the future in which anything or device is connected to the Internet.
The project presented to the BBVA Foundation focuses on how to protect the Internet from things, since in this area generally it excels the usability towards the security, reason why many devices are vulnerable.
The goal, therefore, is to create two types of sentinels that are able to protect the environment.
On one hand there is a physical hardware that would work with the plug and protect system and would be very similar to a raspberry pi, a small computer board that would carry out a first phase of detection;
In which it would discover the devices that have around, would identify its vulnerabilities and detect the attempts of attack;
And once this phase was carried out the second would be done, which would consist of the protection of the devices.
The second type of agent could be software in the form of an application that would be downloaded on a Smartphone and that would protect all the devices that the owner has around.
According to the author of the project, both sentinels must have three main properties: adaptability, transparency and collaboration.
As agents will be able to adapt to specialize in the type of objects they find in their environment.
Likewise, they should be as transparent as possible insofar as they require minimal configuration by the user.
Finally, it is essential that there is a collaborative network between sentinels so that they can share information and thus optimize protection.
In the field of Informatics, there is never 100% security, explains the researcher, adding that: "Hackers have gone professionalizing little by little and nowadays they are an economic activity. The motivation for which they work is a balance Between the profit they are going to obtain and the effort that the attack requires. Therefore our goal is to reach the commitment to increase this effort in such a way that it is not worth attacking, given the possible benefit. "
For Gómez Mármol, the support received from his team, especially from his thesis director, Gregorio Martínez Pérez, has been very important and he wants to encourage other researchers to pursue this type of opportunity with perseverance: "I encourage everyone to Try it and, if it does not go out, keep trying, that in the end a good idea works, whether in the form of scholarship, help, project, etc. "
Félix Gómez Mármol is a researcher Ramón y Cajal at the University of Murcia, who researches in the Intelligent Systems and Telematics group, directed by Antonio Fernando Skarmeta Gómez.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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