Hackers are already targeting networked vehicles, machines, industrial and telecommunications systems to gain illegal advantages, such as harming competitors, stealing intellectual property or leaking sensitive data.

At the same time, there is a growing need to make automotive systems, corporate and production networks more functional, convenient, traffic-safe and energy- and cost-efficient. These requirements alone are not only making the systems more and more complex and demanding in their development. They are also becoming increasingly networked. More complexity and more networking also offer more opportunities for attacks on these systems, which can also have a greater impact and are therefore also more lucrative for offenders.

In the project, IMMS and its partners are securing the design of integrated systems through innovative chip architectures and automated modelling and verification methods. This should enable the trustworthiness of the system to be continuously checked not only during the design, but also during operation, and thus a hacker attack to be blocked.