As an R&D-intensive company that bases its competiveness and sustained development entirely on R&D, Safelayer's technological vision and work have placed it several years ahead of the coming technology waves. The company boasts a high degree of knowledge and specialization in ICT security and trust technologies thanks to its on-going research, development and innovation.

Safelayer devotes its human and technical R&D resources to experimenting with new technologies, analyzing newly-proposed standards and keeping up with the trends in technology that in the short or medium term will become part of everyday use in the professional and domestic sectors. This R&D comprises the following complementary lines of investigation:

• The Semantic Web
  The semantic standards defined by the W3C open up new possibilities for information inference and integration, and the interoperability of information and associated services. This line of research analyses the improvements that can be gotten from defining and incorporating ontologies, and using reasoners, expert systems and intelligent agents in generation processes and taking a global view of information security and trust.
• Identity and Access Management (3.0)
  Identity management is of prime importance to the security services associated with authentication, access control and privacy. Thanks to experimentation and innovation in this area (primarily on user-centric systems), new mechanisms are being progressively incorporated in Safelayer products that guarantee security and trust in the management of identity, which is improved with semantic technologies and the intelligent use of context information and risk analysis.
• Security, Trust and Privacy
  The evolution of the applications and the advent of new use scenarios, such as those posed by social networks and the wide range of connection devices available, require new trust models and mechanisms that guarantee transaction security and user privacy (and even anonymity), both of which are objectives of this line of research.
• Ambient Intelligence and Context
  In the not-too-distant future, everything will be connected—people, machines and objects in general—, and you will be able to access any information or service from anywhere, anytime and from a variety of different devices. Decision making depends more and more on the context of the information; this includes security and trust, meaning they now need to be intelligent. This line of research also deals with aspects related to ubiquitous computing based on an infrastructure of ad-hoc networks and sensors, ambient intelligence or cloud-computing.
• Electronic Identifiers and Signatures
  The evolution of national (Spanish electronic national identity card), European (ECC) and international (ePassport) electronic identifiers means Safelayer needs to be directly involved in defining and testing the new standards that guarantee interoperability between solutions. This also applies to services that can be deployed on these identifiers, such as the advanced electronic signature, that need not only to comply with, but also to improve on and evolve the legal framework.
• User Graphical Interfaces and Ergonomics
  Safelayer is working on how to integrate e-identity and securely replace paper with bits in the new Information Society in an agile, effective, non-intrusive and interoperable manner. The use of methods for graphically displaying and representing security elements is especially important; the aim being to simplify the generation and management of trust.

Thanks to its experimentation with emerging technologies and its applying of them to the field of security, Safelayer is continually enhancing and adapting products to meet client needs for identification, authentication, access control, electronic signature, and data, document and Web service protection solutions.

Since its foundation, Safelayer has taken part in numerous national and international research projects in collaboration with other companies and universities. The fruits of these projects have enabled Safelayer to widen its range of products and extend their functions, as you can see in demo applications.