SecFutur · Design of Secure and energy-efficient embedded systems for Future internet applications

Security has always been a stepchild to the developers of embeddedsystems. In the past they were able to rely on physicalprotection. Due to the connectivity and ubiquity of today's embeddedsystems this is no longer possible. The aim of SecFutur is to developand establish a security engineering process for embedded systems. Inorder to achieve this overall goal SecFutur will provide a set ofimplemented resource-efficient security building blocks for embeddedsystems, each addressing a specific complex non-functionalrequirement, and a security engineering framework that supports thedeveloper in integrating these building blocks into the overallengineering process. SecFutur targets the developer of embeddedsystems who by using the project results will be able to follow anapplication driven security engineering approach and increase theoverall security of the system. Practical scenarios from severalsecurity-relevant application areas will be used in SecFutur toevaluate and demonstrate the advances towards secureresource-efficient embedded systems.