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Mobitrust is a CATRENE project. Project reference: CA208
Duration: 01/12/2014 to 30/11/2017
PROJECT PROFILE

The objective of the MobiTrust project is to develop a complete framework (HW/SW embedded bricks, remote credential life-cycle management tools, judiciary-proof HW/SW forensics tools) aimed at enhancing the security and privacy protection of future mobile platforms such as smart-phones or Tablets. Read more

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Summary

The project focus will be on ARM/Android kernel technology. Complete mobile platforms (Smart-phone or tablets) based on off-the shelf commercial platforms and integrating the project results will be demonstrated at the end of project, and several scenarios and demonstrators aimed at validating their security and privacy-preserving nature (BYOD, MOOC secure usage, Mobile as a PC, Mobile payment, forensics,..) will be set-up by the Consortium partners.

Finally existing certification methodological frameworks will be extended to deal with the concepts introduced in the project (privacy, compositional security, forensics).

The major expected project impact is to down size the costs of Smart-Phone and Tablets usage for professional or mixed personal/ professional usage versus specific platforms, and to bring their security their privacy-preserving nature at a level at least similar to the level of best existing PCs of today.

Objectives

The general objective of the MobiTrust project is to develop a complete embedded framework (HW, SW mechanisms and related management, HW/SW forensics tools) aimed at enhancing the security and privacy protection of future mobile platforms such as smart-phones or Tablets running over open platforms such as Android. These mechanisms will target primarily new usages of such devices, supporting some major trends in enhanced mobility both in the Consumer/Enterprise (BYOD), Smart-City, Mobile Cloud, Massive On-Line Open Courses (MOOC). Read more

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General goals

Consumer and professional domain The evolution of mobile devices during the past decade is quite complex: The hardware platform has rapidly evolved from a small-screen device for mainly talking and texting to a complex system used for browsing the internet, accessing services, reading multimedia contents, connecting to many other wireless devices, etc.
This is especially magnified by the rapid penetration rate of tablets both in the consumer and professional areas.
Today's Operating Systems are rather complex, some closed such as Symbian or iOS, some open such as Android or Window 8, all capable of addressing a plethora of applications.
Today's users fancy the liberty of being able to install and run the latest fashionable mobile application which may come from third party suppliers.
This trend is expected to continue during the next 5-10 years also with the development of new usages as enabled by the fast development of Mobile Broadband Internet, and which interconnect both the personal and professional spheres. LTE for example is already starting in the US and in some other countries such as Japan or Australia or now in most European countries.

Strategic relevance (relevance for Europe)

The number of mobile internet users is expected to grow from 400 M users by end 2011, to about 3.5 B users by end 2015, according to ERICSSON CEO, Hans Vesberg, who stated this during his keynote speech in the last Capital Market days, in Stockholm. This increase in mobile internet users is enabled by the rapid evolution of mobile devices such as Smartphones (which are progressively replacing feature phones) and Tablets, as well as the availability of 3G, and emerging 4G LTE networks. Read more

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Strategic relevance (relevance for Europe)

Consumer and professional domain The evolution of mobile devices during the past decade is quite complex: The hardware platform has rapidly evolved from a small-screen device for mainly talking and texting to a complex system used for browsing the internet, accessing services, reading multimedia contents, connecting to many other wireless devices, etc.
This is especially magnified by the rapid penetration rate of tablets both in the consumer and professional areas.
Today's Operating Systems are rather complex, some closed such as Symbian or iOS, some open such as Android or Window 8, all capable of addressing a plethora of applications.
Today's users fancy the liberty of being able to install and run the latest fashionable mobile application which may come from third party suppliers.
This trend is expected to continue during the next 5-10 years also with the development of new usages as enabled by the fast development of Mobile Broadband Internet, and which interconnect both the personal and professional spheres. LTE for example is already starting in the US and in some other countries such as Japan or Australia or now in most European countries.

News

Mobitrust International Workshop

- Security and Privacy Protection for Future Mobile Platforms -
29 November, 2017
Instituto Telecomunicações
- Aveiro, Portugal

Gemalto releases findings of first half 2016 Breach Level Index Read more

  • Mobitrust, Innovation-Award -> Learn more
  • Workshop, Aveiro, 29 November 2017, Demo presentation
  • Workshop, Aveiro, 29 November 2017
  • SophiaAntipolis 14 and 15 December 2016
  • SophiaAntipolis 14 and 15 December 2016
  • Caen 15 September 2016

Innovation proposed

The MobiTrust project will address some difficult challenges such as:

  • Providing technical solutions that will realize optimal trade-offs between contradictory requirements
    • Privacy protection and ease of use
    • Trace-ability of transactions for legal, judiciary purpose or commercial litigation settlements
    • High level of security in open environments such as Android for both smartphones and tablets
  • Isolation of the 4 major stake-holder domains in new generation smart-phones or tablets (user, MNO, Service provider, O/S and Device manufacturer), enabling a seamless usage of mobile devices in bi-mobility context (personal/professional) and ensuring global and consistent Privacy protection policies
  • Ability to control from the security and privacy-keeping standpoint, platforms which rely on “off-the-shelf” components. This will be achieved by adding critical HW or SW brick (developed in the project) and aimed at enforcing the security and protection of private data
  • Automation of the certification processes of new mobile platforms from the security and privacy protection point of view
  • Friendly interfaces enabling the user to interact easily with its mobile platform for all security and privacy protection aspects
  • Friendly interfaces enabling the user to interact easily with its mobile platform for all security and privacy protection aspects
  • Enabling the replacement of dedicated terminals for vertical applications by off-the-shelf platforms thereby boosting the deployment of vertical markets and the related ecosystems.

Events

  • Local 1st October 2019 - Coimbra, Portugal
  • Local F2F meeting took place on 2 May 2018 - Coimbra, Portugal
  • Local F2F meeting took place on 18 September 2017 - Coimbra, Portugal
  • MobiTrust 3rd Annual Review took place on 31 May 2017
  • 7th PMB/PTB meeting toke place on 30 May 2017 - La Ciotat, France
  • Local F2F meeting took place on 20 April 2017 - Coimbra, Portugal
  • 6th PMB/PTB meeting toke place on 29/30 March 2017 - Elancourt, France
  • 5th PMB/PTB meeting toke place on 14/15 December 2016 - Sophia-Antipolis, France
  • Local F2F meeting took place on 23 November 2016 - Aveiro, Portugal
  • Local F2F meeting took place on 11 October 2016 - Castelo Branco, Portugal
  • 4th PMB/PTB meeting took place on 14/15 September 2016 - Caen, France
  • Local F2F meeting took place on 29 July 2016 - Coimbra, Portugal
  • Local F2F meeting took place on 21 June 2016 - Coimbra, Potugal
  • MobiTrust 2nd Annual Review took place on 8/9 June 2016
  • 3rd PMB/PTB meeting took place on 3 July 2015
  • 2nd PMB/PTB meeting took place on 13 May 2015
  • 1st PMB/PTB meeting took place on 11 December 2014