Ensuring Secure and Safe CMD Design with Zero TRUST Principles
Funded under
Horizon Europe
Duration
01/01/2023 – 31/12/2025
Budget
€ 5 999 046

What is the mission of the
ENTRUST project?

The mission of ENTRUST is to develop a comprehensive Trust Management Architecture for connected medical devices, aligned with the Cybersecurity Act and existing cybersecurity guidelines. The project aims to strengthen trust, privacy, and security across the entire medical ecosystem by enabling dynamic and holistic management of devices throughout their lifecycle.

 

The main objective of ENTRUST is to ensure end-to-end trust management of connected medical devices. This includes the development of formally verified trust models, risk assessment processes, secure lifecycle procedures, security policies, and technical recommendations, as well as introducing real-time Conformity Certificates to enhance the safety and reliability of medical devices.

Future Needs’ role in ENTRUST

Future Needs leads the Dissemination, Communication, Exploitation and Impact Creation work package, where we create an open-source roadmap for the results of the project. Our responsibilities also include the project branding and the design of website and visual material, as well as the support of the partners in outreach and clustering activities.

 

Furthermore, Future Needs leads the development of a Data Management Plan, ensuring Legal and Ethical Compliance and will conduct an analysis of the Ethical & Legal Dimension of Trust Management in Next-Generation of smart connected medical devices. 

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What is the aim of the ENTRUST project?

ENTRUST will leverage a series of breakthrough solutions to enhance assurance without limiting the applicability of connected medical devices by enclosing them to cybersecurity features. The project will introduce a novel remote attestation mechanism to ensure the device’s correct operation at runtime regardless of its computational power; will be efficient enough to run in also resource-constrained real-time systems such as the medical devices.

 

Which needs does ENTRUST address?

There is a need for targeted design and development of Medical Device – specific defensive mechanisms that occurs from: 

 

  • The absence of a holistic security and privacy solution throughout the entire lifecycle of a heterogeneous medical device
  • The lack of a trust establishment mechanism among all the stakeholder in the healthcare supply chain
  • The absence of formal verification approaches for medical devices
  • The absence of runtime assurance for the connected medical devices
  • The lack of cyber security culture and visibility in healthcare domain

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