Secure Hardware-Software Architectures for Robust Computing Systems (SHARCS)
Research Project, 2015
– 2018
Developing new security paradigms, architectures, and software, for more secure and trustworthy ICT systems and services has clear social, scientific, and market motivation. This motivation is becoming stronger due to the changing threat landscape; over the past decade we are witnessing an ever-increasing amount of cyberattacks on the Internet. We believe that to advance the field of cybersecurity, we must act proactively and in synergy, instead of being reactive to cyberattacks. We propose SHARCS, a framework for designing, building and demonstrating secure-by-design applications and services, that achieve end-to-end security for their users. SHARCS will achieve this by systematically analyzing and extending, as necessary, the hardware and software layers in a computing system. This holistic approach is necessary, as no system can truly be secure unless every layer is secured, starting from the lowest one. We will measure the effectiveness of the SHARCS framework by using it on a diverse set of security-critical, real-word applications. The applications have been chosen from three different domains, medical, cloud and automotive, to demonstrate the platform independence capabilities of SHARCS. SHARCS will provide a powerful foundation for designing and developing trustworthy, secure-by-design applications and services for the Future Internet.
Participants
Ioannis Sourdis (contact)
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Computer Engineering (Chalmers)
Collaborations
Elektrobit Automotive
Erlangen, Germany
Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)
Heraklion, Greece
IBM Israel - Science and Technology
Petach Tikva, Israel
Neurasmus
Rotterdam, Netherlands
OnApp
Gibraltar, Gibraltar
Stichting VU-VUmc
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Braunschweig, Germany
Funding
European Commission (EC)
Project ID: EC/H2020/644571
Funding Chalmers participation during 2015–2018