Qascom

Qascom (Quality and Secure Communications) is a software and systems technology provider of security applications in the satellite navigation and communications domain.Qascom operates in various sectors: Space, Transport and Government.In the space sector, Qascom has developed technologies and competence in security for Global Satellite Navigation Systems (GNSS) signals and receivers.In the transport sector, Qascom implemented solutions for the security and monitoring of road, marine and air vehicles. In the government sector, Qascom implemented solutions for public security and emergency response through the monitoring, coordination and control of people and vehicles critical to the operation.

Qascom is based in Bassano del Grappa, VI, Italy.

Research activities are mainly focused on GNSS signal and receiver security. Qascom has a number of publications in the field, pioneering the area of trusted location systems and location based access control. Research in GNSS receivers include the design and vulnerability assessment of tamper resistant hardware, software and cryptographic schemes. Qascom additionally performs research on anti-spoofing techniques through cryptographic integrity and authentication, both at the data and the signal level for both GNSS and augmentation systems.

Publications

Chris Wullems, Oscar Pozzobon, Kurt Kubik. Secure Tracking for Critical Applications: Communications, GPS and Future Galileo Services. "In Proceedings of the 2006 RNSA Security Technology Conference,Canberra, Australia, September 2006".

Chris Wullems, Oscar Pozzobon, Alessandro Pozzobon. Secure Tracking for Critical Applications. Geospatial Solutions, August 2005. http://www.geospatial-online.com

Chris Wullems, Oscar Pozzobon, and Kurt Kubik. Signal Authentication and Integrity Schemes for Next Generation Global Navigation Satellite Systems. "In Proceedings of the European Navigation Conference (ENC-GNSS 2005), Munich, Germany, July 2005." Oscar Pozzobon, Chris Wullems, and Kurt Kubik. Secure Tracking using Trusted GNSS Receivers and Galileo Authentication Services. "Journal of Global Positioning Systems, 3, 2004."

Oscar Pozzobon, Chris Wullems, and Kurt Kubik. Trust Your Receiver? Enhancing Location Security. GPS World, pages 24–30, October 2004. http://www.gpsworld.com

Oscar Pozzobon, Chris Wullems, and Kurt Kubik. Secure Tracking using Galileo Services. "In The 2004 International Symposium on GNSS/GPS (GNSS 2004), Sydney, Australia, December 2004."

Chris Wullems, Harikrishna Vasanta, Mark Looi, and Andrew Clark. A Broadcast Authentication and Integrity Augmentation for Trusted Differential GPS in Marine Navigation. "In Workshop on Cryptographic Algorithms and their Uses, Goldcoast, QLD, Australia, July 2004 *"

Oscar Pozzobon, Chris Wullems, and Kurt Kubik. Requirements for Enhancing Trust, Security and Integrity of GNSS Location Services. "In The 60th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Navigation (ION), Dayton, OH, USA, June 2004."

Chris Wullems, Kevin Tham, Jason Smith, and Mark Looi. A Trivial Denial of Service Attack on IEEE 802.11 Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Wireless LANs. "In Third IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS 2004), Pamona, CA, USA, May 2004". *

Chris Wullems, Kevin Tham, and Mark Looi. Proximity-Based Network Packet Filtering For IEEE 802.11 Wireless Devices. "In IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2004".*

Chris Wullems, Mark Looi, and Andrew Clark. Towards Context-aware Security: An Authorization Architecture for Intranet Environments. "In Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Communication Security (PerSec 2004), pages 132–136, Orlando, FL, USA, March 2004".*

Chris Wullems, Oscar Pozzobon, Mark Looi, and Kurt Kubik. Enhancing the Trust of Location Acquisition Systems for Critical Applications and Location-based Security Services. "In Proceedings of the Forth Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference (AIWSC 2003), pages 391–405, Adelaide, Australia, November 2003".*

Chris Wullems, Mark Looi, and Andrew Clark. Enhancing the Security of Internet Applications using Location: A New Model for Tamper-resistant GSM Location. "In Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2003), volume 1, pages 1251–1258, Antalya, Turkey, July 2003".*

* Pubblications of Qascom members written with other organizations.