Description du projet
Protection dans les airs des dispositifs connectés
L’utilisation croissante des dispositifs électroniques et de l’Internet des objets s’accompagne d’une augmentation des risques de bogues et de cybercriminalité. Non seulement ces problèmes entravent l’expérience des utilisateurs, mais ils exposent également ces derniers à d’éventuelles fuites d’informations sensibles. Pour les entreprises, ces fuites pourraient se traduire par d’énormes pertes. Malheureusement, les moyens de résoudre ces problèmes s’avèrent onéreux, non fiables et fastidieux, car ils exigent la présence d’ingénieurs sur le terrain afin de mettre à jour, rappeler ou remplacer les dispositifs à l’aide de clés USB et de câbles de données. Le projet MENDER, financé par l’UE, introduira un service permettant la mise à jour à distance des logiciels/micrologiciels des dispositifs intégrés, réduisant ainsi le temps et les coûts liés à la sécurisation des dispositifs.
Objectif
Mender secures the world by patching security vulnerabilities in embedded connected devices. It removes the current need to develop costly, insecure and unreliable homegrown solutions and sending engineers out in the field with USB sticks/data cables to update vulnerable devices or recall and exchange devices due to security breaches. Mender is market disruptive and a game-changer, based on open source software technology for secure automated over-the-air (OTA) soft- and firmware updating of embedded devices.
The overall objective of the MENDER Phase 2 project is is to mature and launch the Mender Enterprise and Hosted Mender software for secure OTA updating. Mender Enterprise will be offered as a downloadable license (Enterprise) or as Software-as-a-Service solution (Hosted). In the MENDER Phase 2 project we will address and implement the findings of our Feasibility Study to enable rapid and successful commercialisation of the Mender product ‘family’ (Mender Enterprise & Hosted Mender) based on our existing open-source solution Mender Community. We have outlined a series of objectives that can be grouped in 3 categories and achieving them will bring us to a wide international market uptake:
1) Technology maturation objectives will optimise Mender functionalities prior to intensive testing by end-users.
2) Test and validation objectives to demonstrate and validate the commercial potential of Mender in actual end user operating environments.
3) Market maturation, communication and innovation management objectives enabling us to successfull to the market and reach sales traction beyond Phase 2.
Through MENDER we will significantly boost our growth - quantified as accumulated revenues of €16.5m 3-year post project with accumulated net profit of €10.7m and employment growth of at least 25 FTEs. Mender addresses directly the security issues linked to handling a large volume of embedded connected devices and provides an end-to-end solution to address secure OTA updatin
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitymalicious software
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementinnovation management
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
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Régime de financement
SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinateur
0349 OSLO
Norvège
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.