ENFORCING END-USER-DRIVEN SECURE SERVICES ACROSS DIVERSE DOMAINS IN THE COMPUTING CONTINUUM

forthcoming

Project ENFORCE provides a pragmatic and standards-driven approach to enhancing the security of critical infrastructures, targeting direct applicability in modern Security Orchestration Centre platforms. By integrating IoT technologies, advanced 5G connectivity, and edge networking, ENFORCE addresses critical challenges in trust, security, and performance within increasingly interconnected digital environments. The project emphasizes critical advancements, including: a) Assessing and strengthening infrastructure assurance to ensure trustworthiness across interconnected domains. b) Validating service-level assurance and enhancing end-user defined services against potential threats through dynamic intervention in service function chains, all while adhering to specified service requirements and system policies. c) Performing continuous, real-time vulnerability checks, both routinely and upon dynamic updates within the operational environment. d) Automating runtime updates in response to identified vulnerabilities, guided by service-specific requirements and leveraging common vulnerability data shared across domains. e) Implementing rapid and automated mitigation and resiliency strategies through immediate responses to cyber-attacks, while preserving data confidentiality and service continuity using secure Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) migrations and service function adjustments across infrastructures. ENFORCE ultimately empowers large private organizations, particularly telecommunication providers, to seamlessly and securely integrate advanced services and applications within their operational frameworks. The project's open, standardized platform facilitates the establishment of advanced Security Orchestration Centre platforms, enabling coordinated cybersecurity incident management and secure service deployment across diverse infrastructure domains at both national and cross-border levels.