Assia TRIA
Manager of the Systems and Secured Architecture research department of ENSM-SE
"The real added-value of this program is its close relationship with local big international players in microelectronics"
Assia has a PHD from Montpellier University in electronics, optronics and systems.
She joined Gemalto (the world leader in chip cards) in 1996 as a product engineer. Then in 1999 She joined their security department where I was responsible for component security and stayedthere until 2005.In 2005 She co-ordinated a mixed research team from ENSMSE/CEA-LETI and managed the systems and secured architecture department. At the moment there are 22 employees in this department and our areas of research are:
- Physical and formal attacks
- Counter-measure development
- The methods and safe conception tools
- Anonymity and confidence
- Biometry
Within this Master’s, we wanted to include the main parties in the security field as well as industrialists and academics, not only to give our students a deeper understanding of research and activities undertaken in these fields, but also to show them that security material is rather limited in the chip-card field and that this field, although recent, is vast. (CEA, ENSMSE,ENST, LIRMM, TIMA etc.)
Strong industrial implications (ST, GEMALTO, INSIDE, ATMEL…)
As in-depth theoretical lessons are offered in this Master’s degree, we wanted to implicate industrialists for them to give our students their vision of security and in particular, show them what constraints they will come across when going from theory to practical work. Their presence will allow our students to formulate a very specific idea of needs, problems and requests expressed in this field.
This year we involved: Gemalto, STM, Infineon, Inside-contactless, etc…Values added to the Master’s degree/differentiating its unique training programme
The SISA Master’s stands out from other Master’s programmes in its treatment of security material. Other Master’s exist but more in the software and network fields whilst there is nothing on materials. Only recently has material been spoken about (notably attacks, counter-measures etc…) Moreover, within ENSMSE, we have characterization safety laboratories (DPA benches, EMA, Laser etc…) which enable us to highlight our teaching skills by certain practical work or highly specific manipulation.
In addition, the management committee is made up of experts from the industrial sector.Career Opportunities
They are many.
R&D engineers, safety brick developers, oriented security designers, security evaluators, consultants etc…