The internet of things (IoT) drives the datafication of our everyday life. Then, the IoT offers high automation potential, enabling us to improve people's live and compensate for societal problems such as the ageing population, missing high skilled labour across Europe or the efficiency limits of current production capabilities.
IoT 5.0 an Artificial Intelligence (AI) assisted Internet of Things, could even more benefit society, as the devices could learn how to provide more value. But the ubiquitous connectivity comes at a cost. Security levels have to rise tremendously to ensure a network stays secure and safe. This security effort is a burden for small and medium sized enterprises. This is especially dangerous as a single corrupted device can allow an attacker the exploitation of the entire network of connected devices.
Consequently, RESILIENT TRUST focuses on end-to-end security of IoT processing chains with a focus on exploitation for SMEs. It aims developing specialized hardware and software to establish TRUST in-between a network and RESILIENCE against attacks.
The long-term vision of Resilient Trust is to support SMEs activities, to secure their entire supply chain, in order to boost SMEs capabilities to develop secure and safe Cyber-Physical Systems. The partners of the microelectronics industry focus on creating integrity and identity in the lower levels of the chain for warranting RESILIENCE and TRUST. The hardware and software developments are performed for four application cases.
Resilient Trust is organised in 7 Work Packages and applied to 4 use cases.
WP 1: Requirements /Specifications
The objectives were to:
· Analyze the state of the art of IC development and secure firmware updates
· Describe attacker profiles and possible threats they could exploit and what risks they pose and to
· Analyze the supply chain infrastructure and main actors or entities involved in the supply chain.
Work Package 2: RF attack detection & mitigation: Chip-level Architecture, Design, and EDA Methodologies
The main objective is to develop all the needed hardware IPs necessary for the RF attack detection and mitigation demonstrator.
Work package 3: Hardware Security and Trust, uses the requirements of WP1 to define the hardware architecture of a security subsystem including a low-power processor and cryptographic extensions.
Work package 4: Software Development, which aims to define the software architecture of the secure low-power processor including the extension, security feature, interoperability,and connection to the blockchain.
Work package 5: System Integration and Demonstration. In resilient Trust a large list of demonstrator for the different use cases has to be implemented.
Worl package 6 for Dissemination, Exploitation and Standardisation.
And, finally WP7 for the project Management.