Overview of the Project
A number of research initiatives have recently been launched in Europe and other
industrialised countries regarding the design and development principles of the
Future
Internet. This term encompasses the emergence of future large heterogeneous and
interconnected networked ICT infrastructures, like the
Internet of Things (IoT).
The IoT will go beyond today’s traditional boundaries of the virtual world by being
linked to the real world, the world of physical objects or ‘things’. The link will be based
on
sensors, actuators, RFID tags, and other similar
devices embedded in objects, in a
number of billions, that will allow the network to have real-time information on the
whereabouts of any object.
In this landscape, there are many open security issues that demand urgent attention. It is
necessary to explore which security requirements emerge in the new scenario of
‘things’; there is a need to research how those devices embarking processing capabilities
can be made robust to network attacks; users will need to know how the new
applications with objects affect the control over their personal information, etc. In other
words, the development of the IoT is expected to come along with a
new range of
security services given that the exchange of information between different systems and
objects, but also only among objects, will configure new and unexplored scenarios.
Therefore, the goal of this project is to develop a
Security Services Platform, the
SPRINT Platform, specifically designed for the Internet of Things, that will allow and
facilitate future IoT applications engineers and developers the straightforward
integration of secure services into their software, guarantying in this way that further
users of those IoT applications have their main security needs satisfied and covered. It is
also important to note that we will consider a number of comprehensive security
services for the SPRINT Platform, but we will do it at different levels.
More precisely, besides the adaptation and creation of
basic services supporting IoT
security, we will build services that are related to secure network level communications.
In this sense, a service for
secure network connectivity among objects will be
developed, as well as a
distributed intrusion detection service. A
supporting service for
balancing QoS and security will be created too. On the other hand, and at a higher level,
we will additionally foster services specifically reworked for the IoT case, like
privacy
and identity management, and
trust management. Furthermore, we will develop a
secure
object location service that is inherent to objects of the IoT scenario. All these services,
once integrated into the platform, will be evaluated with two appealing applications.