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Collaborative project: User support in evaluating the trustworthiness of websites and webshops (Internet Usage Support: InUse) – Subproject 4
Project
Project code: 2816601010
Contract period: 01.02.2012
- 31.01.2015
Budget: 193,828 Euro
Purpose of research: Experimental development
The project’s objective is to increase the consumer protection in the Internet by supporting the user in judging on the trustworthiness of a webpage. This is done by automating checks that are nowadays already possible but very time-consuming and requires expert knowledge and by providing the result of this check in an understandable and transparent way. This objective is dived in three sub objectives: 1. Development of a tool to judge on the trustworthiness of a webpage and in particular of web shops and to provide feedback to the user in terms of warnings and hints to proceed. 2. Integration of the tool in a secure environment to protect the tool and the personal information including the risk profile. 3. Development of en IT security evaluation seal for webpages which can be interpreted by the tool regarding its content, validation, and authenticity. The project is structured in the following working pages WP1 State of the Art; WP2 Concept for Security Analysis; WP3 Risk Profile; WP4 Concept for Context Analysis; WP5 Evaluation Concept; WP6 Warnings, Hints, and Recommendations how to proceed; WP7 Handling False Positives and False Negatives; WP8 Anonymisation Concept; WP9 Security Analysis of the Updating Concept and Scientific Monitoring; WP10 Security Analysis Authenticity Protection of the IT Security Seal and Scientific Monitoring; WP11 Realization; WP12 User test; WP13 Project Management.
Section overview
Subjects
- Communication Sciences
- Computer science
Collaborative Project
Framework programme
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Project group: Constitutionally Compatible Technology Design (provet)
