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Latin America’s most renowned innovation center is now an Embrapii-certified Cybersecurity Competence Center.

What is a Competence Center?

Embrapii (Brazilian Agency for Industrial Research and Innovation) has launched a new operational model to drive knowledge creation, innovation and expertise in cutting-edge, strategic fields that position Brazil in the global economy. This initiative focuses on deep science research projects in R&D&I.

As an Embrapii Competence Center, CESAR specializes in cybersecurity—a critical field dedicated to developing solutions that ensure the security and integrity of digital interactions.

Deep Science

In today’s digital age—where technological advancements and increasing connectivity shape the future—cybersecurity has become a top priority. As an Embrapii Competence Center, CISSA is committed to cutting-edge research, tackling complex technological challenges with the potential to drive significant transformation across industries, business sectors and society.

CISSA’s Key Focus Areas:

Research

To expand and strengthen scientific and technological expertise in R&D&I

Training & Development

To educate and empower talent to excel in R&D&I

Ventures

To identify and launch tech-driven startups

Connections

To build technology partnerships with companies and foster scientific collaboration with academic and research institutions

Core Research Areas

CESAR’s designation as an Embrapii Cybersecurity Competence Center reinforces our commitment to driving technological advancements and developing innovative cybersecurity solutions. With the goal of becoming a leading reference in the field. CISSA is conducting scientific research across the following areas:

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

IAM solutions focus on safeguarding data and systems from unauthorized access through authentication, authorization, and auditing. These techniques can be applied to emerging technologies such as cloud computing, IoT, decentralized networks, and immersive environments

Data Protection and Privacy (DPP)

This research area focuses on securing data at rest, in transit, and during processing—ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability across systems. These solutions apply to IoT, immersive environments, decentralized systems, AI, networks, and cloud computing.

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)

This research area focuses on collecting, analyzing and leveraging detailed insights into cyberattacks and threat actors. By enhancing threat detection and response capabilities, the resulting solutions empower organizations to identify, understand, prevent and effectively counter both known and emerging threats.

Legal, Ethical, and Behavioral Aspects (ALEC)

Focuses on the human factors of cybersecurity, including research that explores governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC), as well as the psychological and sociological aspects of fraud and cyberattack prevention, security solution usability, data-driven strategy development, and the design of security-focused processes and user journeys.

CESAR Researchers

These research initiatives strengthen Brazil’s scientific and technological capabilities, foster talent development in cybersecurity, and promote collaboration between CESAR and a diverse network of regional and global partners. CISSA’s formation establishes an open innovation ecosystem to tackle future security challenges across multiple industries.

  • Postdoctoral, doctoral, master’s, and undergraduate research fellows
  • Researchers nominated by center-affiliated partners
  • Researchers from Brazilian and international collaborations

Market Integration

The CESAR Embrapii Competence Center is built on a strong foundation of collaboration between industry and academia. By combining talent development and cutting-edge research with the creation of innovative solutions for startups and enterprises, we continue to leverage the expertise we’ve cultivated for nearly 30 years as a leading innovation center.

Training & Education

CISSA develops professionals through specialized programs in R&D&I, offering them advanced training opportunities within the competence center and the broader ecosystem, in collaboration with CESAR School.

Ventures

This program leverages CESAR’s expertise in venture building. We aim to create innovation opportunities for deep-tech startups, fostering the development of cutting-edge digital security solutions for businesses.

Connections

The CESAR Embrapii Cybersecurity Competence Center is committed to building a dynamic ecosystem of industry partners and research institutions on a global scale. By fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange, we aim to address current and future market demands while enabling businesses to access cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions.

Technology Partnerships

With financial support from our partners, the ecosystem strengthens the long-term sustainability of projects while fostering knowledge exchange and professional collaboration. These partnerships enable mutual talent development and provide access to the Competence Center’s infrastructure and resources.

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