SEGRES - Izertis

SEGRES

developing a resilient Industry 4.0

The aim of SEGRES is to generate disruptive innovations in the field of industrial cybersecurity by researching a new generation of cybersecurity technologies inspired by the functionalities of the human immune system. These technologies are intended to protect industries from the complex cyberattacks they face, thereby enhancing their resilience, sustainability, competitiveness and efficiency.

Challenges

Protecting system elements, especially IIoT devices

Ensuring that the system as a whole is aware of its components, allowing it to identify external elements that may act as attackers or intruders

Enabling the system to be context-aware, considering not only its own status but also its position within a network or chain of other organisations. The system should be capable of assessing the risks it faces, understanding the protection policies in place, identifying potential attack situations and their impact, and even determining how to respond and recover from them

Allowing the system to benefit from its own protection experience, and even from the experiences of similar systems or others in its environment that have faced attack situations, so that it can adapt to new threats over time

Solution

SEGRES will investigate how the latest trends in decentralised identity models, which are currently being applied to individuals, can be adapted to the Industry 4.0 context. The goal is to explore how the Operational Technology (OT) environment can benefit from the latest advances achieved in Information Technology (IT) regarding state-of-the-art identity management.

The project will propose new algorithms to create an innovative credential model through which, using Self-Sovereign Digital Identity (SSI), the characteristics, qualifications and certifications of selected industrial resources can be demonstrated to third parties.

In addition, the project will explore the use of encryption techniques that facilitate secure data sharing and distribution among multiple parties, based on attributes, zero-knowledge proofs, and other methods that can leverage Self-Sovereign Identity as a tool for secure data exchange.