Enforcing End-user-driven Secure Services Across Diverse Domains in the Computing Continuum

Securing Next-Generation Critical Infrastructure

ENFORCE aims to strengthen the security of critical infrastructures by combining IoT, advanced 5G and edge technologies in a standards-driven framework. It enhances infrastructure assurance, protects service function chains and enables continuous, real-time vulnerability monitoring. The project automates updates and mitigation actions, including secure TEE-based responses to cyber-attacks. ENFORCE ultimately supports telecom providers and other large organizations in securely deploying and managing advanced services across national and cross-border domains.

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To design and extend the ENFORCE platform for secure and scalable orchestration and management of services and resources across the computing continuum and the interconnected domains.

To register and validate the infrastructure domains requesting connection to ENFORCE platform, and suggest enhancements to the security, trustworthiness, and usability of the domains by assessing the risk, deploying monitoring agents, and providing attestation services for secure identities and usability.

To enhance the security and performance of the end-user service deployments across the computing continuum and the interconnected domains, by assessing the risk, suggesting, and incorporating network function enhancements, and relying on AI-based tools.

To continuously evaluate the runtime security risks of the instantiated services, across the computing continuum and interconnected domains, through continuous vulnerability risk assessment in combination with analysis of security updates and threats from knowledge base and conclude on security improvement decisions.

To provide advance runtime detection capabilities followed by mitigation and resiliency processes that can efficiently react to detected attacks, by using the platform’s automated capabilities for intra- and inter-domain reconfiguration actions.

To test and verify the security and privacy performance and compliance of the ENFORCE platform across the computing continuum and the interconnected domains, using realistic testing infrastructure and use case blueprints.

To maximise the impact and uptake of ENFORCE through standardisation, innovation in end-to-end security and user-focused privacy, validation activities, and a strong business model to support real market adoption.