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Improving IoT supply chain security

20 December 2023
Mejoramos la seguridad de la cadena de suministros de IoT

“TECNALIA develops a platform to protect the entire IoT supply chain”

With the collaboration of developers, security experts, technology providers and service operators, TECNALIA is developing a platform to protect the entire IoT supply chain

In order to ensure data privacy and integrity, TECNALIA seeks to improve the security and reliability of IoT operations through an integrated framework that includes all supply chain stakeholders and stages.

IoT devices are designed to collect and send data, making them susceptible to interception and data theft.

New methodologies: households, industries and cities

This project aims to introduce an integrated multi-level monitoring, testing and validation methodology covering both individual components and the overall IoT system.

With the aim of minimising the number of cyberattacks on companies, and in order to reduce carbon emissions from households, industries and cities, methodologies will be validated in three use cases: households, industries and cities. TECNALIA will validate the methodology and components developed during the project on its connected car demo platform.

The project is based on the security-by-design paradigm. It is a philosophy that seeks to incorporate security at every stage of the production process of a product: it covers both the validation and security assurance of the project and all stages of its life cycle.

This new security-by-design approach will provide an operational reference model in accordance with the requirements of the proposed European Cyber Resilience Act.

IoT ecosystem value chain

The consortium carrying out this project includes stakeholders from the entire value chain of the IoT ecosystem: service operators, OEMs, technology providers, developers, security experts, as well as academic and research partners.

The Hungarian company ATOS will be the coordinator of the project, in which the University of Murcia and TECNALIA, among others, are taking part. End users will be involved through the use of a living lab environment.