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Friday February 20, 2026 at 07:00

National award for Santiago Arias for his final degree project in cybersecurity

National award for Santiago Arias for his final degree project in cybersecurity National award for Santiago Arias for his final degree project in cybersecurity

A Final Degree Project carried out by the graduate of the ETSII Santiago Arias Paniagua, graduate in Software Engineering, has been recognized in the call for awards for Final Degree Projects (PFG/TFG), Final Master Projects (TFM) and Doctoral Theses focused on cybersecurity and Internet of Things (IoT).

Ginés Miñano

The competition, whose results were published on January 19, is sponsored by the INCIBE-UNED Chair 'Smart Rural IoT and Secured Environments' and recognizes the best academic work in these areas. In the case of Paniagua's winning final degree project, the prize includes €1.000 for the student.

Santiago feels great satisfaction and sees this recognition as “a perfect ending to my university studies. Above all, I consider it recognition of the technical effort invested in the project, but I also see it as validation of the importance of cybersecurity today. I'm happy to have been able to contribute my bit.”

The main objective of their project was “to address a real privacy problem: how to allow two parties to compare information to find matches, without either of them having to reveal their private data to the other.”

Paniagua has developed and implemented a decentralized system that uses different cryptographic protocols, and has deployed it in a practical environment with mobile devices and web services. Santiago's goal was "to demonstrate that it is possible to mathematically protect user confidentiality even on everyday devices with limited resources."

Currently, Paniagua already works as a Software Engineer, applying the technical foundations he consolidated during his degree at URJC, and his current work continues to focus on “mobile devices, although it has tended more towards management than development,” explains Santiago, and adds, “today I have the opportunity to manage the evolution of a stack of applications that allow more than 25.000 users to perform their work daily.”

These awards are part of the National Cybersecurity Institute's (INCIBE) initiative to promote Cybersecurity Chairs in Spain. This initiative falls under the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan and is funded by the Next Generation EU Funds.

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