Serendipity - Secure and dependable platforms for autonomy

Divisions:

Division of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Division of Networked and Embedded Systems

Research Groups:

Cyber-Physical Systems Analysis
Data Communication
Model-Based Engineering of Embedded Systems
Safety-Critical Engineering

Status:

active

Start date:

2018-03-01

End date:

2023-02-28

To take full advantage of our increasingly connected and autonomous world, we need technologies to build platforms that are secure and dependable by design. We need security solutions developed not for a particular application area, but for connected, heterogeneous, timesensitive cyberphysical systems and largescale systemsofsystems.

The security solutions need to be scalable and adapted to an open environment where nodes, services and users vary over time. The timely and continuously available security services need to be maintained and should remain transparent to the user. Traditional dependable platforms are designed to provide dependable service, including features such as redundancybased fault tolerance, selfmonitoring, selfhealing, and selfreconfiguring. We claim that security and safety can be addressed in a uniform manner based on these features, since, if used properly, they could be suitable to discover and neutralize intruders and adversaries. In Serendipity, we will develop new technologies and a platform for safetycritical connected cyberphysical systems that leverage existing techniques for dependable systems and augment them with scalable security solutions for open and heterogeneous systems.

Mikael Sjödin, Professor,Research Leader

Email: mikael.sjodin@mdh.se
Room: U1-195
Phone: +46 70 288 2829

Mar 2018
Serendipity opens two PostDoc and four PhD-positions.
Feb 2018
SSF grant for framework-project in cyber-security