Carmen Sánchez Zas awarded with the second prize to the best Ph.D thesis work in the fields of defense and security by UPM and CESEDEN

On December 19th 2024, the “Ingeniero General D. Antonio Remón y Zarco del Valle” Chair awards ceremony was held, where UPM and CESEDEN seeked to recognize the work carried out during this year by teachers, researchers and students of the University in the fields of defense and security, involving as many of the areas that compose UPM.

This Chair between the UPM and CESEDEN pursues the objective of bringing the Armed Forces and the university environment closer together. This way, all participants were requiered to be part of any of the university’s technical schools and to have developed their final degree/master’s work, PhD thesis or publication during the last academic year. Prizes were divided into four categories: Final Degree’s Work, Final Master’s Work, PhD Thesis and Publication accepted in a JCR magazine. 

In the third one, a Ph. D researcher from RSTI Group, Carmen Sánchez Zas, was awarded the second prize to the best technology, product or service developed in the UPM with themes related to Defence and Security, having submitted to the competition her PhD thesis “Propuesta de un modelo de caracterización de ciberataques para entornos de conciencia cibersituacional”, tutored by Victor Villagrá and Xavier Larriva. The work undertaken presents a model that leverages current cybersecurity standards to characterize cyberattacks and uses this information to enhance risk management processes and decision support in mitigation selection within a cybersituational awareness environment.