A cybersecurity framework to guarantee reliability and trust for digital service chains - GUARD

Evolving computing paradigms are progressively introducing new design, development, and operation models for digital services, which increasingly leverage service-oriented architectures and microservices patterns to create data-centric applications. This approach eventually brings more agility in the overall service lifetime management, but also introduces additional security and privacy concerns that cannot be effectively addressed by legacy device- and infrastructure-centric models. The GUARD project developed an extensible platform for building detection and analytics services for advanced assurance and protection of trustworthy and reliable business chains which span multiple administrative domains and heterogeneous infrastructures. GUARD advocates the implementation of embedded security capabilities in digital services, that can be accessed and orchestrated through API similar to what already happens for management and operation purposes. GUARD features are demonstrated on two challenging use cases, in the Smart Mobility and eHealth domains.