Advanced Networked Agents for Security and Trust Assessment
in CPS / IOT Architectures

A holistic solution enabling trust and security by-design for Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) based on IoT and Cloud architectures

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Concept

The main objective of the ANASTACIA project is to address cyber-security concerns by researching, developing and demonstrating
a holistic solution enabling trust and security by-design for Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) based on IoT and Cloud architectures.

The heterogeneous, distributed, and dynamically evolving nature of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) based on Internet of Things (IoT) and virtualised cloud architectures introduces new and unexpected risks that cannot be solved by current state-of-the-art security solutions.

For this, new paradigms and methods are required in order i) to build security into the ICT system at the outset, ii) to adapt to changing security conditions, iii) to reduce the need to fix flaws after deploying the system, and iv) to provide the assurance that the ICT system is secure and trustworthy at all times.

ANASTACIA will thus develop a trustworthy-by-design security framework which will address all the phases of the ICT Systems Development Lifecycle (SDL) and will be able to take autonomous decisions through the use of new networking technologies such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) and intelligent and dynamic security enforcement and monitoring methodologies and tools.

Security-by-Design

Software Defined Networks

Networking Function Virtualization

Framework

The ANASTACIA cyber-security framework will provides self-protection, self-healing and self-repair capabilities through novel enablers and components.

The framework will dynamically orchestrate and deploy security policies and actions that can be instantiated on local agents. Thus, security will be enforced in different kinds of devices and heterogeneous networks, e.g., IoT- or SDN/NFV- based networks. The framework will be designed in full compliance to SDN/NFV standards as specified by ETSI NFV and OFN SDN, respectively, and will include:

Security Development Paradigm

A security development paradigm based on the compliance to security best practices and the use of the security components and enablers (to provide assisted security design, development and deployment cycles to assure security-by-design)

Distributed Trust and Security Enablers

A suite of distributed trust and security components and enablers, able to dynamically orchestrate and deploy user security policies and risk-assessed resilient actions within complex and dynamic CPS and IoT architectures (online monitoring and testing techniques will allow more automated adaptation to mitigate new and unexpected security vulnerabilities)

Dynamic Security and Privacy Seal

A holistic Dynamic Security and Privacy Seal, combining security and privacy standards and real time monitoring and online testing (to provide quantitative and qualitative run-time evaluation of privacy risks and security levels, which can be easily understood and controlled by the final users)

Highlights

A quick glimpse of ANASTACIA's main features

ANASTACIA architecture

A preliminary outline (as included in the proposal)

Use Case 1

Mobile Edge Computing applications

Use Case 2

Smart building

Timeline

A quick overview of main project events

  • READY,
    STEADY,
    GO!

    January 1st 2017

    The ANASTACIA project officially starts!

    The main objective of the ANASTACIA project is to conceive, develop and demonstrate a holistic solution enabling trust and security by-design for Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) based on IoT and Cloud architectures.

  • January 18th-20th 2017

    ANASTACIA Kick-Off Meeting (Genoa, IT)

    All partners meet in Genoa to officially launch the project, share a common project vision and define
    its scientific and technical roadmap.

  • May 3rd-4th 2017

    ANASTACIA Plenary Meeting (Murcia, ES)

    Activities are proceeding: partners meet to assess the first ANASTACIA reference architecture, check advancements and plan the delivery of the first milestones and deliverables.

  • June 6th-9th 2017

    ANASTACIA @ IoTWeek 2017 (Geneve, CH)

    Our project is presented in the IoT Risk Management section (IoT Security & Privacy Track)

  • June 6th-9th 2017

    ANASTACIA @ GIoTS 2017 (Geneve, CH)

  • September 10th-14th 2017

    ANASTACIA @ CENICS 2017 (Rome, IT)

    Our project is presented in the CYPHYS: Cyber-Physical Security special track within CENICS 2017

  • November 28th-29th 2017

    ANASTACIA Plenary Meeting (Athens, GR)

    Dense agenda for the 3rd plenary meeting - use cases, requirements and architecture are available and technical activities can be started accordingly

  • January 31th 2018


    ANASTACIA @ ReCRED Clustering Event (Athens, GR)

    16+ EU funded projects presented their objectives and results and shared their implementation experiences. An important dissemination event that facilitated the discussion between partners, the knowledge exchange between different projects and also enabled future synergies and collaborations. ANASTACIA was represented by UBITECH, WP6 leader.

  • March 20th 2018

    ANASTACIA @ SAINT Project Workshop (Athens, GR)

    UBITECH (WP6 leader) represented our project in the workshop organized by the SAINT Project. SAINT is an EU H2020 project which examines the problem of failures in cyber-security using a multidisciplinary approach that goes beyond the purely technical viewpoint, by combining economic analysis with behavioral, societal and institutional views, targeting in new methodologies that will improve the cost-effectiveness of cyber-security.

  • April 26th 2018

    ANASTACIA @ Cyberwatching.eu Concertation Meeting (Brussels, BE)

    Cyberwatching.eu is creating a catalogue of cyber security & privacy service offers from research projects and ANASTACIA’s Offer has been published too. This event was a great opportunity to give a lightning talk on our project during the break-out and networking sessions.

  • April 25th-26th 2018

    ANASTACIA Plenary Meeting (Madrid, ES)

    The 4th plenary meeting was kindly hosted by ATOS: the Consortium worked in particular on integration, use case implementation and architecture update.

  • June 4th-7th 2018

    ANASTACIA @ IoT Week (Bilbao, ES)

    The IoT Week gathered the community of stakeholders engaged in developing new Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and solutions. During the IoT Week 2018, the Euskalduna Conference Centre hosted prominent IoT experts, researchers, IoT focused companies, research centres, European research projects, start-ups and international organizations to meet, discuss and identify emerging trends and technologies that will impact the future.

  • July 10th-11th 2018

    ANASTACIA Technical Integration Meeting (Murcia, ES)

    A technical integration meeting was kindly hosted by UMU to work on integration of technical results in preparation of the first project review.

  • September 26th 2018

    ANASTACIA 1st Review Meeting (Brussels, BE)

    First official review for the ANASTACIA project with external reviewers and European Commission Project Officer.

  • November 20th-21st 2018

    ANASTACIA Plenary Meeting (Paris, FR)

    The 5th plenary meeting was hosted by Montimage: the Consortium focused on the results of the first validation and evaluation phase and will launch the second development and integration cycle.

  • April 2nd-3rd 2019

    ANASTACIA Plenary Meeting (Espoo/Helsinki, FI)

    AALTO University welcomed the ANASTACIA Consortium in its premises to discuss about the project Key Innovations, related technical development and integration, with an eye on exploitation paths too.

  • June 17th-21th 2019

    ANASTACIA @ IoT Week (Aarhus, DK)

    Latest Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and solutions were showcased in the IoT Week. The ANASTACIA project was be there too with a dissemination booth to illustrate latest achievments.

  • July 9th-10th 2019

    ANASTACIA Plenary Meeting (Geneve, CH)

    Swiss ANASTACIA partners hosted the plenary meeting focused on integration and on planning of final evaluation and validation phase, launching the last semester of activities.

  • September 18th 2019

    ANASTACIA meets the Community of Users

    The ANASTACIA project was invited to meet the COMMUNITY OF USERS ON SECURE, SAFE, RESILIENT SOCIETIES during its 14th meeting in Brussels: latest results on the achievements of the addressed Key Innovations will be presented, with a look at the final integrated framework and contribution to EU policies in cyber-security & privacy

  • October 29th-30th 2019

    ANASTACIA Plenary Meeting (Cork, IE)

    Partner UTRC will host the plenary meeting that will mostly close the integration activities and launch the final evaluation and validation phase from the organizational point of view.

  • December 10th-11th-12th 2019

    ANASTACIA Plenary Meeting & Workshop (Murcia, ES)

    The University of Murcia (Scientific Coordinator) will host the final plenary meeting, where technical integration of the ANASTACIA framework will be achieved to showcase the main cyber-security and privacy-preservation functionalities in the dedicated Campus testbed - a workshop with the research community and other stakeholders will be organized, together with an IAB meeting for a final overall validation and assessment before the Final Review

  • February 2020

    FINAL PROJECT REVIEW

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    More events and results will follow!

Results

Public deliverables

D1.1 "Holistic Security Context Analysis"

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D1.2 "User Centred Requirements Initial Analysis"

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D7.1 "Initial Dissemination Standardization and Outreach Strategy Plan"

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D1.3 "Initial Architectural Design"

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D2.1 "Policy-Based Definition And Policy For Orchestration - Initial Report"

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D5.1 "Dynamic Privacy And Security Seal Model Analysis"

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D2.2 "Attack Threats Analysis And Contingency Actions - Initial Report"

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D6.1 "Initial Technical Integration and Validation Report"

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D3.1 "Initial Security Enforcement Manager Report"

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D2.3 "Privacy Risk Modelling And Contingency - Initial Report"

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D2.4 "Secure Software Development Guidelines - Initial Report"

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D3.2 "Initial Security Orchestrator Report"

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D6.2 "Initial Use Cases Implementation And Tests Report"

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D7.3 "First Period Dissemination Standardization And Outreach Report"

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D3.3 "Initial Security Enforcement Enablers Report"

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D6.3 "Initial End-User Validation and Evaluation Report"

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D4.1 "Initial Monitoring Component Services Implementation Report"

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D4.2 "Initial Reaction Component Services Implementation Report"

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D2.5 "Policy-based Definition and Policy for Orchestration Final Report"

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D4.3 "Initial Agents Development Report"

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D5.2 "Dynamic Security and Privacy Seal Monitoring Service"

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D1.4 "Final User Centred Requirements Analysis"

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D2.7 "Privacy Risk Modelling And Contingency - Final Report"

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D5.1 "Dynamic Privacy And Security Seal Model Analysis"

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D4.4 "Final Monitoring Components"

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D1.5 "Final Architectural Design"

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D2.6 "Attacks Threats Analysis Contingency Actions Final Report"

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D2.8 "Secure Software Development Guidelines Final Report"

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D3.5 "Final Security Orchestrator Report"

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D3.6 "Final Security Enforcement Enablers Report"

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D3.4 "Final Security Enforcement Manager Report"

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D4.5 "Final Reaction Component Services Implementation Report"

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D4.6 "Final Agents Development Report"

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D5.3 "Dynamic Security And Privacy Seal User Interface"

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D6.4 "Final Technical Integration And Validation Report"

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D6.6 "Final End User Validation And Evaluation Report"

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D6.5 "Final Use Cases Implementation And Tests Report"

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D7.4 "Second Period Dissemination Standardization Outreach Report"

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Publications - Open Access, Green Policy

ANASTACIA Advanced Networked Agents for Security and Trust Assessment in CPS IoT Architectures

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An Accurate Security Game for Low-Resource IoT Devices

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Assuring Virtual Network Function Image Integrity and Host Sealing in Telco Cloud

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Geo-partitioning of MEC resources

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NFV Security Threats and Best Practices

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SlowComm Design Development and Performance Evaluation of a new Slow DoS Attack

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Towards Secure Building Management System based on Internet of Things

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Anomaly-Based Intrusion Detection System for Embedded Devices on Internet

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Securing VNF Communication in NFVI

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Towards Provisioning of SDN-NFV-based Security Enablers for Integrated Protection of IoT Systems

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Remotely Exploiting AT Command Attacks on ZigBee Networks

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Architecture of security association establishment based on bootstrapping technologies for enabling critical IoT infrastructures

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Enhancing IoT Security through Network Softwarization and Virtual Security Appliances

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Managing AAA in NFV/SDN-enabled IoT scenarios

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5G NBIoT Efficient Network Traffic Filtering for IoT

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A survey on emerging SDN and NFV security mechanisms for IoT systems

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Assessing Lightweight Virtualization for Security-as-a-Service at the Network Edge

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Darknet Security A Categorization of Attacks to the Tor Network

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Enabling Virtual AAA Management in SDN-Based IoT Networks

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Introducing the SlowDrop Attack

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Lightweight Virtualization based security framework for Network Edge

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Protecting personal data in IoT platform scenarios through-encryption-based selective disclosure

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Trust-based Video Management Framework for Social Multimedia Networks

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Virtual Security as a Service for 5G Verticals

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Challenges in Cybersecurity and Privacy: the European Research Landscape

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Key Innovations in ANASTACIA

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Secure Authentication and Credential Establishment in Narrowband IoT and 5G

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Virtual IoT HoneyNets to mitigate cyberattacks in SDN/NFV-enabled IoT networks

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Use Case demo videos

DSPS GUI demo

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MEC.3 Use Case Demo

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BMS.3 Use Case Demo

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BMS.2 Use Case Demo

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BMS.4 Use Case Demo

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Live Demo @ Universidad de Murcia - PEANA Labs

YouTube Channel

Figures

The ANASTACIA project in figures

36 months duration

January 2017 - December 2019

14 partners involved

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7 countries represented

Italy, Spain, France, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Switzerland

6 target objectives

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2 demonstration use cases

Mobile Edge Computing and Smart Building

3,999,208.75 € funding

5,420,208.75 € costs

8 work packages

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41 deliverables

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32 milestones

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Team

Who's Who in ANASTACIA

Stefano Bianchi

Project Coordinator, WP8 Leader
Softeco Sismat

Antonio Skarmeta

Scientific Coordinator, WP2 Leader
University of Murcia

Edgardo Montes De Oca

WP4 Leader
Montimage

Tarik Taleb

WP3 Leader
AALTO

Sebastien Ziegler

WP5 Leader
Mandat International

Alie El-din Mady

 
UTRC

Menouer Boubekeur

 
UTRC

Bojana Tosic Bajic

WP5, T5.2 Researcher
Archimede Solutions

Pasquale Annicchino

WP5, T5.2 Researcher
Archimede Solutions

Pedro Soria-Rodriguez

WP1 Leader
ATOS

Adrian Quesada Rodriguez

WP2, T2.3 / WP5 leader, T5.1
Mandat International

Thanasis Bouras

WP6 Leader
UBITECH

Panagiotis Gouvas

WP6 Leader
UBITECH

Dallal Belabed

WP7 Leader
THALES

Mathieu Bouet

 
THALES

Silvia Scaglione

 
CNR - IEIIT

Enrico Cambiaso

 
CNR - IEIIT

Maurizio Mongelli

 
CNR - IEIIT

Eunah Kim

Task 5.3 leader, WP5
DG

Bengt Sahlin

 
ERICSSON

... and many other guys who behind the scenes are making ANASTACIA a successful project!

Innovation Advisory Board (IAB)

Who's supporting ANASTACIA to have a real impact

IAB members will kindly to support the Consortium in the identification and implementation of the strategy to maximize the impact of results, overviewing and aligning the released outcomes with the industry’s and standardization bodies’ requirements.

Christian Mastrodonato

Digital Catapult

Stefano Secci

UPMC, Paris VI, LIP6

Jesus Luna

Robert Bosch Inc

Diego R. Lopez

Telefonica I+D

Gianmarco Baldini

Joint Research Center

Mark Miller

CONCEPTIVITY, EOS, ECSO

Consortium

The industrial and academic partners who will make ANASTACIA rock cybersecurity!

Contacts

We are eager to collaborate and share information!

Stefano Bianchi

Project Coordinator

Softeco Sismat

+39 010 6026 368

stefano.bianchi softeco.it

Antonio Skarmeta

Scientific Coordinator

Universidad de Murcia

+34 868 88 4607

skarmeta um.es

Carmen Ifrim

Project Officer

European Commission

+32 2 296 0345

Carmen.IFRIM ec.europa.eu