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Securing tomorrow’s infrastructures

The “Cloud Anomaly Detection” Research and Teaching Chair aims to strengthen Isep’s expertise in the field of anomaly detection and its application to IT infrastructures in the cloud. This project aims to improve the security and performance of cloud services for businesses, particularly in the context of massive, scalable infrastructures.

OUTSCALE: a strategic partnership

The Chair is based on a key partnership between OUTSCALE, a French provider of multi-sovereign cloud services, and LISITE, Isep’s research laboratory. This collaboration brings together academic and industrial experts around common technological challenges linked to anomaly detection in cloud environments.

As a leader in secure clouds, certified ISO-27001, SecNumCloud and HDS, OUTSCALE provides the Chair with a unique experimental framework, including real-time log data and a high-performance platform for testing and validating the methods developed.

For their part, LISITE researchers, specialized in the processing of massive data flows in real time, are tackling the critical challenges posed by anomaly detection, helping to secure and stabilize cloud services.

Chair activities

The Chair’s activities aim to create an enriching environment for experimentation, where Isep’s professors-researchers, PhD students and engineering students work together on anomaly detection solutions adapted to cloud infrastructures. Initiatives include:

  • Seminars and Workshops: Sharing research advances and results by bringing together students and experts around the Chair’s issues.
  • Hackathons: Co-creation events enabling participants to tackle real-life challenges and actively contribute to anomaly detection research.

Areas of expertise

In a context where IT infrastructures are constantly evolving and generating huge volumes of data, log analysis is becoming crucial for system security and efficiency. The Chair focuses on the development of new methods for detecting anomalies in massive data flows from OUTSCALE’s cloud infrastructures, with the following objectives:

  • Optimizing security: Anticipating and rapidly identifying abnormal behavior to protect systems.
  • Enhanced availability: Ensure high availability of cloud services by deploying robust, responsive solutions.

Organization

The Cloud Anomaly Detection Chair is overseen by a Steering Committee, chaired by Yousra Chabchoub, a teacher-researcher specializing in IT and networks at Isep, and the Chair’s delegate.

The Scientific Advisory Board, which guarantees the quality and relevance of the Chair’s work, is made up of :

  • Yousra Chabchoub (Isep)
  • Mar Callau-Zori, Data Lake Manager at OUTSCALE
  • Christophe Hubert, Director of Engineering at OUTSCALE

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