Trustworthiness is a critical component in any service, and its importance is magnified in the context of the COREnext platform. To comprehend its significance, a deep understanding of potential adversaries seeking to exploit vulnerabilities is crucial. 

This article delves into the multifaceted security aspects integral to trustworthiness in the COREnext platform, encompassing authentication, confidentiality, component isolation, data integrity, and service availability.

In 2024, the paramount importance of prioritizing security aspects cannot be overstated, with a particular focus on authentication. Guaranteeing secure access to platform services hinges on robust user identification processes, ensuring that only authorized individuals can interact with sensitive systems. Additionally, confidentiality remains a critical pillar in safeguarding valuable information, permitting access exclusively to authorized entities and preventing unauthorized breaches. The need to enhance security, maintainability, and reliability by segregating software and hardware components, requires to isolate components. The emphasis on component isolation further underscores the significance of enhancing security. Data integrity emerges as a pivotal concern, necessitating a commitment to ensuring the accuracy and reliability of data throughout its lifecycle while fortifying defenses against unauthorized alterations. Finally, service availability takes center stage, emphasizing the need to design systems that function sea mlessly even in the face of hardware or software faults. These security measures collectively form a robust defense strategy against evolving threats in the dynamic landscape of 2024.

In short, the COREnext platform places a premium on trustworthiness, emphasizing the above key security aspects:

  1. Authentication Identity: Ensuring secure access to platform services through fundamental user identification processes.
  2. Confidentiality: Safeguarding sensitive information, permitting access only to authorized entities.
  3. Component Isolation: Enhancing security, maintainability, and reliability by segregating software/hardware components.
  4. Data Integrity: Ensuring accuracy and reliability of data throughout its lifecycle, guarding against unauthorized changes.
  5. Service Availability: Designing the system to function seamlessly even in the presence of hardware or software faults.

Summarizing, trustworthiness must become a key European differentiator, and thus COREnext addresses trustworthiness also on an architectural level, where it must be balanced with efficiency goals. In summary, trustworthiness of the entire system will only be as strong as its weakest link. Thus, COREnext takes an end-to-end approach from considering trustworthy analogue components to trustworthy integration of digital components. COREnext will develop a trustworthy-by-design platform and thus answer the need for European capabilities for B5G/6G computing based on a new computing architecture for base stations. This architecture efficiently and securely integrates third-party accelerators capable of supporting even the most demanding 5G/6G processes in cloud servers, base stations, and client-side devices. The platform will be released in 2026.

 

Read more about the project:

About COREnext – COREnext

Use Cases – COREnext

https://corenext.eu/2023/04/11/ensuring-trustworthiness-the-crucial-role-of-privacy-in-automotive-infrastructure/

https://corenext.eu/2023/10/30/vulnerabilities-lurking-in-todays-digital-world/