ENFORCE provides a pragmatic and standards-driven approach to enhancing the security of critical infrastructures, targeting direct applicability in modern Security Orchestration Centre platforms. By integrating IoT technologies, advanced 5G connectivity, and edge networking, ENFORCE addresses critical challenges in trust, security, and performance within increasingly interconnected digital environments. The Project ultimately empowers large private organizations, particularly telecommunication providers, to seamlessly and securely integrate advanced services and applications within their operational frameworks.
Critical advancements are expected in:
Assessing and strengthening infrastructure assurance to ensure trustworthiness across interconnected domains.
Validating service-level assurance and enhancing end-user defined services against potential threats.
Performing continuous, real-time vulnerability checks both routinely and upon dynamic updates within the operational environment.
Automating runtime updates in response to identified vulnerabilities.
Implementing rapid and automated mitigation and resiliency strategies through immediate responses to cyber-attacks.
To design and extend the ENFORCE platform for secure and scalable orchestration and management of services and resources across the computing continuum and the interconnected domains.
To register and validate the infrastructure domains requesting connection to ENFORCE platform, and suggest enhancements to the security, trustworthiness, and usability of the domains by assessing the risk, deploying monitoring agents, and providing attestation services for secure identities and usability.
To enhance the security and performance of the end-user service deployments across the computing continuum and the interconnected domains, by assessing the risk, suggesting, and incorporating network function enhancements, and relying on AI-based tools.
To continuously evaluate the runtime security risks of the instantiated services, across the computing continuum and interconnected domains, through continuous vulnerability risk assessment in combination with analysis of security updates and threats from knowledge base and conclude on security improvement decisions.
To provide advance runtime detection capabilities followed by mitigation and resiliency processes that can efficiently react to detected attacks, by using the platform’s automated capabilities for intra- and inter-domain reconfiguration actions.
To test and verify the security and privacy performance and compliance of the ENFORCE platform across the computing continuum and the interconnected domains, using realistic testing infrastructure and use case blueprints.
To maximise the impact and adoption of ENFORCE through relevant standardisation and innovation in end-to-end security and user-centric privacy in complex distributed platforms, through Validation Case (VC) activities, and to achieve market impact through technology innovation and a win-win business model that will render ENFORCE an exemplar secure and trustworthy framework with true market potentials.
As a specialized infrastructure solutions provider, p-NET is leveraging its strategic partnerships with major telecommunications providers TS and OTE to commercialize ENFORCE solutions. This commitment, outlined in Task 6.3, focuses on transitioning research into real-world market applications. By collaborating with these members and telco partners, p-NET plays a central role in developing “use case blueprints.” This ensures that cybersecurity measures are not just theoretical, but are robust and effective within high-stakes, real-world environments. Furthermore, p-NET leads WP2 on Platform definition, design extensions, requirements, and Validation Cases, as well as Task T3.2 on Secure service deployment provisioning.