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EU funding (€3,603,832): Safe-Guarding Home IoT Environments with Personalised Real-time Risk Control Hor 1 May 2017 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
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Safe-Guarding Home IoT Environments with Personalised Real-time Risk Control
To effectively respond to the multitude & complexity of cybersecurity challenges in smart-homes GHOST deploys a pioneering software-enabled ‘usable security’ solution. The project brings professional level security to the European citizens and to this end it: (a) increases the automation level & effectiveness of existing security services; (b) opens up the cybersecurity ‘blackbox’ to consumers, creates understanding and builds trust through effortless decision support & advanced ‘usable transparency’; (c) enhances the system’s self-defence by safeguarding critical security-related data using blockchain technology. GHOST software will be embedded in an adequately adapted smart-home network gateway though it will be designed to be vendor-independent. A dedicated middleware layer ensures interoperability with multiple gateways & IoT devices. GHOST considers the relationship between security and usability to be an integration challenge (positive sum game) and definitely not a trade-off (zero-sum game). In this context, the project envisions to lead a paradigm shift in consumer cybersecurity by successfully coupling usable security with transparency and behavioural engineering. The envisaged user experience will systematically trigger security-friendly behaviour aiming at establishing appropriate ‘habitual behaviours’. The solution will perform network analysis & deep packet inspection for suspicious pattern recognition, will apply machine learning for malicious behaviour detection, will carry out context-aware real-time risk assessment, and widely apply analytics & visualization for effortless user comprehension & decision support. In short, GHOST will (i) increase cybersecurity resilience; (ii) boost usability & automation; and (iii) enhance the competitiveness of European ICT security industry. GHOST will be demonstrated in more than 140 real smart-homes in Spain, Norway & Romania via the Red Cross network and beta testers from the customer basis of Televes & ThingsMaze.
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| Cruz Roja Espanola | €282,894 |
| Ethniko Kentro Erevnas Kai Technologikis Anaptyxis | €452,500 |
| Exus Software Ltd. | €319,813 |
| Fundacion Tecnologias Sociales | €0.00 |
| Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine | €309,500 |
| Kalos Information Systems AS | €457,625 |
| Karlsruher Institut Fuer Technologie | €400,313 |
| Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet Ntnu | €582,500 |
| Obrela Security Industries - Ypireseies Asfaleias Pliroforion Anonymos Etaireia | €247,625 |
| Technische Universitat Darmstadt | €93,438 |
| Televes SA | €457,625 |
| Universite DE Geneve | €0.00 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/740923
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