Resilience and openness

The need for interoperability with multiple systems and multiple stakeholders is fuelling a trend for increased openness, including embedded systems. The attendant risks of malicious attack require architectures able to provide adequate protection, and analysis techniques for assessing their effectiveness.

Architecture

Privacy protection  
Operating system kernel protection
Virtualization and diversification
Protection of critical infrastructures
Service oriented applications

Analyse

Characterization of attacks 
Evaluation of intrusion detection systems
Security measures
Modeling interdependencies of critical infrastructures