The Information Security Group Smart Card Centre (SCC) has been conducting, since 2002, pioneering research in the fields of smart cards, tokens security and applications. This has resulted in more than 180 research papers published in international conferences and journals and two books published by Springer Verlag. The SCC is involved in the following research areas:
- Security in Payment Systems
- Secure Application Execution
- Software and Hardware Binding
- Micro Kernels
- Secure Firmware Updates for Nodes/Platforms
- Smart Cards and Java Cards
- Mobile Phone Security
- Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID)
- Avionics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- User Centric Solutions for Smart Cards and Mobile Platforms
- Data Provenance and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs)
- Ambient Sensors
- Internet-of-Things (IoT) Security
- Video/Computer Game Anti-Cheating Mechanisms
- Automotive
- Security Protocol Design
- Set-Top-Box Security
- New Usage of Side-Channel Leakage
- Transport System Security
- High Level Hardware-Intrinsic
- Dynamic Biometric Authentication – Gesture recognition
- Perceptual and Cognitive Visualisations
- Machine Learning, Deep Learning and AI for Security and Privacy Services
