Eight Bells Ltd. participates in the REWIRE Research and Innovation Action on compositional security verification and assurance
Eight Bells Ltd. participates in the REWIRE Research and Innovation Action, officially started on October 1st, 2022. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101070627) and spans on the period October 2022 – September 2025.
REWIRE envisions a holistic framework for continuous security assessment of open-source and open-specification hardware and software for IoT devices and the development of cybersecurity certification in accordance with the requirements and guidelines of recent EU Cybersecurity Act. In particular, REWIRE proposes a scalable and multifunctional cybersecurity platform that will ensure the security throughout the life of the IoT devices with continuous security auditing, trust computing and theorem proofs for defining a hardware-based microarchitecture for enhanced protection targeting to open-hardware/software vulnerabilities.
REWIRE has invested in three carefully selected pilots (Automotive, Smart Cities, Smart Satellites), which can address the ambitious objectives of the project, i.e., a customizable TEE based on RISC-V, and micro benchmarking for quick and automated assessment of h/w vulnerability. Thus, REWIRE aims to safeguard the entire workflow of secure processing; from the Deployment and Operation of software-based System of Systems to their patch management when new exploits have been identified during run-time, by providing new trust management mechanisms towards the auditability and certification of SW/HW open-source specifications.
Eight Bells Ltd. brings expertise in SSH and ethics for trust aspects into the REWIRE action, by providing the Cross-Domain Ethics Toolkit, namely the mechanisms that can analyse the conformity checking of technological developments to security/privacy regulations. Specifically, Eight Bells Ltd. will contribute to the elicitation of requirements for Security, Trust & Operational Assurance in NG SoS, to the REWIRE Reference Architecture, and to the Certification & Runtime Auditing Specification. In addition, Eight Bells Ltd. Will provide contributions for the Use Cases Definition and Demonstrator-Specific Requirement Analysis, along with the critical Appraisal of the REWIRE Framework & End-User adoption guidelines of NG Trust IoT Solutions. Finally, 8BELLS leads, manages and coordinates the activities towards increasing the impact of REWIRE, serving as WP7 leader “Dissemination, Standardization, Exploitation & Impact Creation”, also undertaking the role of Dissemination and Communication manager for the project.
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