I-Corps: Exploring Commercialization Opportunities for a Software-Defined Approach for Securing Internet of Things

I-Corps：探索保护物联网的软件定义方法的商业化机会

• 批准号: 1644587
• 负责人: Vyas Sekar
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-15 至 2017-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1644587&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Exploring; Commercialization; Opportunities; Software

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is two-fold. First, this project may lead to the development of practical security solutions which are needed to fully unleash the benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT). While IoT is projected to be a 1.7 trillion dollar market by 2020, there is a likelihood that progress may be limited due to security concerns. Curtailing IoT progress may ultimately limit the potential societal and commercial benefits. Second, this project, if successful, will have a positive impact on consumers, businesses, and critical infrastructures by protecting digital assets and private data from large-scale cyber-attacks. This I-Corps project has its origins in NSF-funded research on computer networks and cybersecurity. The I-Corps experience will lead to a deeper understanding of the market requirements and benefits of the technologies that were developed as part of NSF-funded research, especially as applied to emerging IoT deployments.This I-Corps project project address three fundamental issues in realizing a product for securing IoT. First, the project will build a library of models that capture the expected (i.e., secure) behaviors of diverse IoT devices in a unified format. Second, the project will enable a novel policy abstraction where the operator defines the intended policies. This abstraction captures relevant physical environments as well as devices' contexts. Third, the project will build a highly scalable and light-weight policy enforcement layer using flexible software-based security appliances realized by new networking paradigms, namely, software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV). Based on these novel technological components, this project has the potential to lead to significant advances in the network security industry.

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是两个方面。首先，该项目可能导致开发实用安全解决方案，这些解决方案完全释放了物联网的好处（IoT）。尽管物联网预计到2020年将成为1.7万亿美元的市场，但由于安全问题，进展可能会受到限制。减少物联网进展可能最终限制潜在的社会和商业利益。其次，如果成功的话，该项目将通过保护数字资产和私人数据免受大规模的网络攻击，对消费者，企业和关键基础架构产生积极影响。这个I-Corps项目起源于NSF资助的计算机网络和网络安全研究。 I-Corps的经验将使人们对作为NSF资助的研究的一部分开发的技术的市场需求和好处有更深入的了解，尤其是应用于新兴的IoT部署。该I-Corps项目项目解决了实现用于确保IoT产品的产品的三个基本问题。首先，该项目将建立一个模型库，该库以统一格式捕获各种物联网设备的预期（安全）行为。其次，该项目将在操作员定义预期政策的情况下实现一个新颖的政策抽象。该抽象捕获了相关的物理环境以及设备的上下文。第三，该项目将使用新的网络范式实现的灵活的基于软件的安全设备来构建一个高度可扩展和轻巧的策略执法层，即软件定义的网络（SDN）和网络函数虚拟化（NFV）。基于这些新颖的技术组成部分，该项目有可能导致网络安全行业的重大进步。