Intel, NSF tip dollars into IoT security
America’s National Science Foundation has noticed the dodgy security surrounding the Internet of Things, and has splashed US$6 million in two grants to improve, umm, things.
The grants to examine “cyber-physical systems” (CPS), awarded in partnership with Intel, have gone to the University of Pennsylvania’s Insup Lee to work on “security and privacy-aware cyber-physical systems”, and to Philip Levis at Stanford, who is working on end-to-end IoT security.
The U-Penn grant will look at autonomous vehicles (including internal and external vehicle networks), the smart-connected medical home, and medical device interoperability.
Lee hopes his outputs will include attack detection, ways to ensure that IoT systems recover from attacks quickly, lightweight cryptography, control designs, data privacy, and an “evidence-based framework for CPS security and privacy assurance”.
The Stanford group is looking at the software architecture for the Internet of Things, with the goal “to make it possible for two developers to build a complete, secure, Internet of Things applications in three months.”
The architectural model includes:
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