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Start of funding 01.07.2018
SS-IoT: Secure and Scalable Internet of Things
Prof. Dr. Alexandra Dmitrienko
University of Würzburg
Institute of Computer Science II
Prof. Dr. Farinaz Koushanfar
University of California, San Diego
Jacobs School of Engineering
Internet of Things (IoT) is a new and emerging technology that promises to bring our life standard to a revolutionary new level – we are facing the era of self-driving cars, smart factories and intelligent “things” connecting users to the digital world. At the same time, IoT systems pose new security and privacy challenges, since they collect and process security-critical information in order to make autonomous decisions and respond to events. However, IoT security is prognosed to be a security disaster, since state-of-the art security solutions cannot deal with potentially unbounded number of interacting devices and their large heterogeneity. In this project, we aim to explore new security designs suitable for IoT system and in particular aim to investigate applicability of blockchains for improving scalability, interoperability and manageability of IoT security solutions.
Final report:
BaCaTeC funding enabled collaboration between the Secure Software Systems research group headed by
Prof. Dr. Alexandra Dmitrienko at the University of Wuerzburg and the Adaptive Computing and
Embedded Systems (ACES) Lab lead by Prof. Dr. Farinaz Koushanfar at the University of California, San
Diego.
The Secure Software Systems group focuses on a wide selection of topics related to the security and
privacy of computing platforms and networks, ranging from secure software engineering to security and
privacy of mobile, cyber-physical, IoT and decentralized systems. The research agenda of ACES Lab at
San-Diego includes research topics related to security, reliability, and safety of embedded systems. The
scope of the BaCaTeC-funded project is devoted to Security and Scalability aspects of Internet-of-Things
(IoT) and fits well to the interests of both project partners.
The funded cooperation included two stays of Prof. Dr. Alexandra Dmitrienko at the UC San-Diego, one in
October 2018 and the other one in February-March 2019. Her stays were devoted to workshops with
active brainstorming sessions at the ACES Lab, networking (included visits to headquarters of Intel and
Qualcomm) and dissemination of research results. It generated a follow up collaboration within an
industrial project funded by KOBIL Security Systems (https://www.kobil.com/).