Talk:SP6
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[edit] SP6. Security, privacy and dependability in Embedded Systems for
[edit] applications, networks and services
The main goal of this sub-programme is to ensure that security, privacy and dependability (SPD) can be
ensured in the context of integrated and interoperating heterogeneous services, applications, systems
and devices. Systems and services must be robust in the sense that an acceptable level of service is
available despite the occurrence of transient and permanent perturbations such as hardware faults,
design faults, imprecise specifications, and accidental operational faults.
The approach is to establish a common conceptual framework - and thereafter conformant methods and
tools for design and implementation - to assure security, privacy and dependability in three classes of
systems. These three classes are differentiated on the basis of the difference between ‘managed
systems’ where the security attributes are centrally defined by the provider managing the system and
‘unmanaged systems’ built on the top of a set of independent and dynamic managed systems, where the
security attributes cannot be defined by a single provider. The three classes are:
• interconnected embedded systems employing heterogeneous devices and standard
communication technologies working in managed and trusted environments.
• interconnected embedded systems, employing heterogeneous devices and advanced
communication technologies (including securing on demand 'instant' networks) working in
unmanaged and non-trusted environments. This will require definition of security schemes
spanning different dynamic domains, assurance of end-to-end security, and adaptive, context and
information dependent security.
• interconnected embedded systems in a framework characterized by an efficient combination of
managed and unmanaged systems, where each embedded system builds its own trust and
security model, whichever communication technologies or media channels will be adopted. This
will also include adaptive trust based on the provenance of the information used by each
embedded system.
