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Increasing control and trust of Smart Home
SIFIS-Home aims at providing a secure-by-design and consistent software framework for improving resilience of Interconnected Smart Home Systems at all stack levels. To this end, the framework enables the development of security, privacy aware and accountable applications, algorithms and services, and makes it possible to detect and dynamically react to cyber-attacks and intrusion attempts or violation of user-defined policies, thus increasing control and trust of Smart Home end users.
Concern about cyber-security and safety
Smart Home is an emerging application paradigm which has been gaining increasing popularity. Most recently, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been fostering a vision of Smart Home systems, where users can install connectable (smart) devices and appliances that cooperate to automatically manage home services and functionalities. This emerging market is rapidly attracting software developers to produce novel applications and services, to provide additional Smart Home functionalities. However, noticeable barriers and concerns are still present, mainly related to cyber-security and safety within Smart Home systems, as well as to the privacy and integrity of produced and consumed data, most of which are personal and sensitive.
Smart interactions
Also, many Smart Home devices use custom and proprietary security solutions that do not account for interactions with other devices in the Smart Home system. Plus, developers have to develop applications adaptable to different systems and architectures, where security aspects are often neglected or poorly addressed.
SIFIS a combination of IoT, telecommunication, cyber-security, research and standardization
The consortium combines leading industry players in the IoT, telecommunication and cyber-security markets with research and academic institutions, also involved as key contributors to premier international standardization bodies (e.g. IETF), and having leading roles in the SPARTA, CONCORDIA and CyberSec4Europe projects of the European Cyber Competence Network. SMEs active in the Smart Home and IoT markets and Open Source community complete the consortium.


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Press release: EU H2020 Research and Innovation projects demonstrate their research results at the Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress
27th January, 2023 The European Research Innovation for Cybersecurity (ERICyB cluster) is proud to announce that seven of its projects will be jointly exhibiting at the Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress, taking place between January 31st and February 2nd, 2023. This congress is co-located with the IoT Solutions World Congress, which is the leading IoT congress and […]
SecTalk
Networking for students and companies 13th December 2022 Hybrid event, enjoy coffee and snacks with us in Pietarsaari-Finland or participate online from your sofa! We start at 3:30 PM Finnish time (Helsinki Time, Eastern European Time (EET), UTC +2) 15:30 Coffee/Tea and Snacks/Sandwiches 16:00 “DevSecOps, Imbedding security into modern software development”. Camilla Colliander, Security Consultant, […]
The Plenary Meeting in Munich
The 7th SIFIS-Home Plenary Meeting in Munich focused on hands-on demo sessions and upcoming SIFIS-Home exhibition The 7th SIFIS-Home plenary meeting was held 16-18th of November in beautiful Munich and hosted this time by Intel. In addition to the usual WP status updates and task specific discussions this plenary was focusing especially on hands-on demo […]
We’re Entering the Age of Deepfakes
Fake videos generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) are more and more convincing. If you have seen Barack Obama call Donald Trump a “complete dipshit” (BuzzFeedVideo 2018), or Mark Zuckerberg brag about having “total control of billions of people’s stolen data” (Yaeger 2019), then you have seen a deepfake. They use a form of AI called […]