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User support in evaluating the trustworthiness of websites and webshops (Internet Usage Support: InUse)
Collaborative Project
Contract period:
01.02.2012
- 31.01.2015
Budget:
965032 Euro
Coordinating institution:
Department of Computer Science
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.
Collaborative Projects
State of the Art
Research projects
Concept for Security Analysis
Research projects
Risk Profile
Concept for Context Analysis
Research projects
Evaluation Concept
Research projects
Warnings, Hints, and Recommendations how to proceed
Handling False Positives and False Negatives
Anonymisation Concept
Security Analysis of the Updating Concept and Scientific Monitoring
Security Analysis Authenticity Protection of the IT Security Seal and Scientific Monitoring
