What we do

E-CORRIDOR aims at providing a flexible, secure and privacy-aware framework allowing confidential, distributed and edge enabled security services, as threat analysis and prevention as well as privacy-aware seamless access mechanism in multi-modal transport systems.

How we do

E-CORRIDOR’s mission is to define a framework for multi-modal transport systems, which provides secure advanced services for passengers and transport operators.

The E-CORRIDOR framework includes collaborative privacy-aware edge-enabled information sharing, analysis and protection as a service. The project plans to show the applicability of this framework in at least two domains: (i) collaborative and confidential cyber threat management and (ii) seamless access mechanism in multimodal transport systems.

Introduction to E-CORRIDOR

Objectives

E-CORRIDOR aims at providing a flexible, secure and privacy aware framework allowing confidential, distributed and edge enabled security services, as threat analysis and prevention as well as privacy aware seamless access mechanism in multi-modal transport systems.

 

Objectives:

  1. to build a flexible, confidential and privacy-preserving framework for managing data sharing, for several purposes, by different prosumers.
  2. to define edge enabled data analytics and prediction services in a collaborative, distributed and confidential way
  3. to define a secure and robust platform in holistic manner to keep the communication platform safe from cyber-attacks and ensure service continuity
  4. to improve, mature and integrate several existing tools provided by E-CORRIDOR partners and will tailor those to the specific needs of the E-CORRIDOR platform and Pilots
  5. to provide mechanisms for seamless access to multimodal transport.
  6. exploitation, communication, standardization, dissemination and early adoption of the E-CORRIDOR results

Applicability

E-CORRIDOR’s mission is to define a framework for multi-modal transport systems, which provides secure advanced services for passengers and transport operators. The framework includes collaborative privacy-aware edge-enabled information sharing, analysis and protection as a service.

E-CORRIDOR will show the applicability of the framework in at least two domains:

1. collaborative and confidential cyber threat management;

2. seamless access mechanism in multimodal transport systems.

 

Collaborative and confidential cyber threat management

E-CORRIDOR is aware of the fact that the transport systems should be considered in a holistic manner. Indeed, their digital infrastructures are interconnected and interdependent. Yet there is a lack of holistic and mainly pan-European approaches for cyber threat management (or at least information sharing and analysis) in those frameworks.

By using a collaborative and confidential platform for cyber threat management (provided by the E-CORRIDOR project), all the European stakeholders involved across the transport domains can take full advantage from sharing of cyber threat data, and can easily anticipate and therefore strengthen their measures against cyber-attacks in future.

Seamless access mechanism in multimodal transport systems.

The E-CORRIDOR platform aims to provide several tools in secure access to transport channels. Among these technologies, we plan to offer passengers continuous authentication services, which can help them to save time and make smooth service access in multimodal transport. It would use a passenger’s footprint (behaviour) data, biometrics, or multi-biometrics data combining with travel data to create a digital record and provide secure authentication in a privacy-preserving manner. The technology has the potential to create a seamless journey for passengers by reducing the time taken for security checks, check-in and boarding at airports, train stations and car sharing or other services in multimodal pan-European transport.

Innovation

A significant innovation of E-CORRIDOR is the flexible and controllable protection framework, with improved and localized (edge based) analytics and enhanced control over private data and represent better cyber detection and response capabilities, while still preserving the confidentiality of the provided information.

The project aims to create an efficient and flexible framework for secure data analytics where data access and data analytics operations are regulated by multi-stakeholder data-sharing agreements. This is enabled by an edge-based solution that allows a distributed, and hierarchical approach.

Methodology

We consider in particular several dimensions to this goal:

  • Define a collaborative platform with privacy-aware design and edge- enabled information sharing, analysis and protection as a service, for cybersecurity in multimodal transport systems.
  • Apply the framework to specific transport domains as well as in a holistic manner.
  • Build a flexible and controllable cyber threat sharing data platform to improve cyber-attack analysis, and to notify about cyber-attack detection.
  • Respect and protect privacy data during data processing thanks to the distributed deployment of E-CORRIDOR analysis platform.
  • Strengthen security, authentication mechanisms and enable new security mechanisms and services allowing multimodal seamless privacy-aware access.