1. Project No. 318508 FP7-ICT-2011-8
MUSES Budget: 4.76M€
EU Funding: 3.59M€
Contact: Anna I. Esparcia – aesparcia@s2grupo.es
JJ Merelo – jmerelo@geneura.ugr.es
Multiplatform Usable Endpoint Security
The overall purpose of MUSES is to foster corporate security
by reducing the risks introduced by user behaviour
Most corporate security incidents are caused by organization insiders, either by their lack of knowledge or inadequate or
malicious behaviour.
MUSES will provide a device independent, user-centric and selfself-adaptive corporate security system, able to cope with the
concept of seamless working experience on different devices, in which a user may start a session on a device and location and
follow up the process on different ones, without corporate digital asset loss.
MUSES aims at the benefit of the company but focusing on the user
company,
Evolutionary Computation will be used in MUSES in two different contexts:
User modelling with models optimised to match Complex Event Processing using EC so that the
observations using EC. underlying mechanisms can be found out.
MUSES will try to create a model of users and In some cases, and independently of specific user
their context so that behaviours that can lead to behaviour, sequences of actions might lead to
security problems can be previewed and, if possible security failures. Complex Event
possible, avoided. These user models will depend Processing captures these sequences in real time
on observations of the context, but also will and tries to model them so that the next action
employ heuristics to match them to known non- can be foreseen. To create these models, EC will
safe behaviours. EC will be used as a be applied also in conjunction with other
metaheuristic to obtain optimal models heuristics.
matching reality.
MUSES partners
S2 Grupo (ES), Universidad de Granada (ES), HITEC (DE), Un Université de Genève (CH), Center for Usability Research &
Engineering – CURE (AT), Wind Telecomunicazioni (IT), TXT e-so
solutions (IT), KU Leuven (BE) and Sweden Connectivity (SE).