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CyberNEMO Featured in AIOTI Report on the EU-Funded IoT and Edge Computing Projects Landscape

AIOTI published the release 4 of the report on IoT and Edge Computing EU Funded Projects Landscape. The main objective of this report  is to provide the landscape of EU funded projects focusing on IoT and edge computing, which can be used to: 1) leverage on existing IoT and edge computing research and innovation activities in Europe, and 2) provide input to IoT and edge computing standardisation gap analysis activities.

In the AIOTI report “EU-funded research projects landscape on IoT and Edge Computing”, the CyberNEMO project is presented through several key categories of information. These include reference links to its official pages, a project abstract outlining its objectives and focus on end-to-end cybersecurity across the IoT–Edge–Cloud continuum, and its planned duration. The entry also highlights main IoT and Edge research challenges addressed by the project, such as zero trust architectures, privacy-preserving AI, federated security management, and secure lifecycle operations. Additionally, it describes CyberNEMO’s dissemination and standardization activities involving collaboration with major European and international organizations, its validation across critical infrastructure sectors like energy, healthcare, and fintech, and key thematic areas such as resilience, cyber threat intelligence sharing, and privacy-by-design principles.

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Eclipse Foundation in CyberNEMO

The Eclipse Foundation provides our global community of individuals and organizations with a mature, scalable, and business-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation. The Foundation is home to the Eclipse IDE, Jakarta EE, and over 415 open source projects, including runtimes, tools, and frameworks for cloud and edge applications, IoT, AI, automotive, systems engineering, distributed ledger technologies, open processor designs, and many others. The Eclipse Foundation is an international non-profit association supported by over 350 members, including industry leaders who value open source as a key enabler for their business strategies. In the context of community building, sustainability and open source, the Eclipse Foundation has two decades of experience managing the governance of complex technology initiatives and multi-vendor organizations, making it the ideal organization to help manage projects where academia and the private sector converge. Its commitment to transparency, vendor-neutrality, and industrial-friendly ecosystem makes the foundation an ideal starting point for an open source project. The Eclipse Foundation has 10 years of involvement in EU research programs. We help organizations to successfully create, publish, and sustain their open source software platform, making the results of the research projects available for commercial or public exploitation.

In CyberNEMO, Eclipse is leading the work package dedicated to the dissemination, communication and exploitation, with particular focus on a specific task aimed to implement the CyberNEMO open source strategy, fostering active engagement with developer communities and early adopters. Working closely with CyberNEMO consortium innovators, the task focuses on identifying relevant open source assets, developing a community-building strategy, and establishing good open source practices.

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Smart Farming Meets Cybersecurity – CyberNEMO’s Role in Securing the Agri-Food Chain

As agriculture embraces digital transformation, the integration of IoT sensors, drones, blockchain, and AI is revolutionizing how food is produced, processed, and delivered. However, this digital leap also introduces new vulnerabilities. The CyberNEMO project is addressing these challenges through a dedicated trial focused on smart farming and agri-food supply chains.
The project explores how cybersecurity can enhance traceability, transparency, and trust in the production of organic olive oil—from the olive grove to the supermarket shelf.

The Use Case: From Tree to Table

The use case centers on the monitoring and auditing of organic olive oil production. This includes:

  • Growing conditions monitored by IoT sensors and drones

  • Harvesting and milling tracked via smart devices and robots

  • Bottling, storage, and transport secured through blockchain and digital twins

These technologies ensure that every step of the process is observable and verifiable, enabling stakeholders and consumers to trace the product’s journey and verify its quality.

However, the reliance on unattended, rural IoT devices introduces significant cybersecurity risks. Devices may be physically tampered with, infected with malicious firmware, or used as entry points for broader attacks 

From Cybersecurity to Trust and Sustainability

CyberNEMO’s approach goes beyond technical protection. It enables:

  • Accountability: Through audit logs and timestamped data

  • Transparency: Via blockchain-backed traceability

  • Resilience: With self-healing systems and secure federated learning

  • Compliance: With GDPR, the AI Act, and the Data Act

By embedding cybersecurity into the entire agri-food lifecycle, CyberNEMO ensures that digital farming is not only efficient but also trustworthy and sustainable.

Cybersecurity in agriculture is no longer optional—it’s essential. As food systems become smarter, they must also become more secure. CyberNEMO demonstrates how cutting-edge technologies can be harmonized with ethical and regulatory safeguards to protect both data and food integrity.

This trial offers a replicable model for cybersecure, transparent, resilient, trustworthy and ethical food supply chains, paving the way for a more sustainable agri-tech future.

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Cybersecurity in the Computing Continuum – The CyberNEMO Challenge

In today’s hyperconnected world, the Computing Continuum (CC)—spanning IoT devices, edge computing, and cloud infrastructure—presents both unprecedented opportunities and complex cybersecurity challenges. The CyberNEMO project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme, is tackling this head-on with an end-to-end cybersecurity approach that integrates risk analysis, ethics and regulatory governance and compliance.

The recently published deliverable D1.1 outlines the threat and ethics assessment conducted across four critical sectors:

  • Smart energy and water infrastructures

  • Secure media content supply chains

  • Healthcare systems

  • Smart farming and logistics

Each of the four trials serves as a living lab to validate CyberNEMO’s technologies:

  • Smart meters and EV charging stations are protected against ransomware and data breaches using Zero Trust Network Architecture (ZTNA) and AI-based anomaly detection.

  • Media content is securely produced and distributed using microservices, encryption, and federated learning.

  • Hospitals defend against insider threats and phishing attacks while ensuring personal and confidential data sharing in compliance with GDPR and other relevant regulations.

  • Smart farming systems use drones, IoT sensors, and blockchain to ensure traceability and cybersecurity in the olive oil supply chain

These trials demonstrate the scalability and adaptability of CyberNEMO across diverse sectors and regulatory environments

Using the MITRE ATT&CK framework, the project identified 44 unique threat types and over 100 functional and non-functional requirements, as well as 23 ethics and regulatory concerns and corresponding requirements. These threats and challenges range from credential theft and ransomware to data manipulation, ethics of AI and denial-of-service attacks.

At the heart of CyberNEMO is a meta-operating system (meta-OS) that orchestrates secure interactions across the CC. This system integrates:

  • Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA): Every device, user, and service is treated as untrusted by default.

  • Federated Machine Learning (FML): Enables decentralized threat detection without compromising data privacy.

  • Secure Access Service Edge (SASE): Ensures secure connectivity across heterogeneous networks.

  • Digital Twins and Blockchain: Provide traceability, auditability, and resilience in supply chains 

This architecture is designed to be ethics-by-conception, modular, scalable, and interoperable, supporting a wide range of use cases and regulatory contexts

CyberNEMO is not just about technology, it’s about building a secure, ethical, and resilient digital future.

You can explore the official project page on the EU CORDIS portal or follow updates from the coordinating partner Synelixis 

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CyberNEMO: Enabling Zero Trust in the IoT-Edge-Cloud Continuum

The Company

Engineering is the Digital Transformation Company, leader in Italy and expanding its global footprint, with around 14,000 associates, with over 80 offices spread across Europe, the United States, and South America and global delivery. 

The Engineering Group, consisting of over 70 companies in 21 countries, has been supporting the continuous evolution of companies and organizations for more than 40 years, thanks to a deep understanding of business processes in all market segments, fully leveraging the opportunities offered by advanced digital technologies and proprietary solutions. 

With a strong and relentless focus on Innovation, through our R&I division that comprises over 450 researchers and data scientists (and a global innovation network of universities, startups, and research firms), the Group continues to invest in international R&D projects while exploring groundbreaking technologies and developing new business solutions.

This unique approach positions Engineering as a key player in the creation of digital ecosystems that bridge the gap between different markets, while developing composable solutions that ultimately foster a continuous Business transformation. 

The CyberNEMO project

After the Covid19 pandemic, remote working highlighted the limitations of traditional VPNs with respect to remote access security. It is necessary to protect users, regardless of the connection point, on the one hand by considering Zero Trust on remote devices, the access network and the edge cloud, and on the other hand by enabling transparent IoT-Edge-Cloud Computing Continuum.

CyberNEMO represents a paradigm shift towards Continuum IoT-Edge-Cloud Computing, which it sees as distributed European critical infrastructure. To achieve mass adoption, CyberNEMO leverages existing by-design and by-innovation cybersecure systems and zero-trust architectures, and introduces new concepts, methods, tools, test frameworks and engagement campaigns to go beyond the current state of the art and create sustainable innovation.

CyberNEMO implements Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) as a cybersecurity model that requires strict identity verification for any device or microservice trying to access the resources of a private network, regardless of whether it is inside or outside the network perimeter.

ENG is WP1 leader about end-to-end CC risks assessment & incidents, mitigation strategies. ENG also will contribute in WP2 to developing a solution to ensure Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) on 5G network and in WP3, ENG will develop an event correlator establishing a partnership with ATLANTIS project.

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RWTH: Smart Automation and Cybersecurity for Energy Systems in CyberNEMO

The Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems (ACS) at RWTH Aachen is one of the four institutes of the E.ON Energy Research Centers founded in 2006. The institute pursues a multidisciplinary research approach and addresses, among other things, questions regarding the monitoring of active electrical distribution networks as well as the appropriate automation architecture for distributed monitoring and control functions. ACS is unique in its composition of experts in the energy, as well as information and communication sectors. This interdisciplinary nature of the chair has led to various preliminary work on IT solutions for energy-related issues.

ACS has been leading research on standardized automation architectures for active electrical distribution networks in European projects as well as on data-driven monitoring structures. Thanks to the competencies in the areas of monitoring, energy systems, and control, the chair is researching solutions for distribution networks automation, state estimation and control, including agent-based solutions. Another focus is the interface between energy and information technology, in particular for data aggregation and analysis to obtain insight.

As part of CyberNEMO, ACS contributes expertise in the areas of high-performance computing, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. ACS is actively involved in intrusion prevention, detection and mitigation solutions, whereby novel concepts in machine learning and knowledge representation are leveraged to protect critical infrastructures.

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Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) is a public and innovative Spanish leading university, which was recognized in 2009 as a Campus of International Excellence in Spain. Founded in 1989, it has more than 25,000 students and more than 2,000 teachers of recognized competence across diverse fields, including Humanities, Science, and Engineering. The university comprises 30 research-oriented departments, offering 38 Bachelor degrees and 152 postgraduate programs. UC3M is among the best universities in Spain and is included in the first quartile of the QS World University Rankings that highlights the best universities in the world.  

Within UC3M, the Network Technologies (NETTEC) group from the Department of Telematic Engineering is actively contributing its expertise to the CyberNEMO project. The research team involved in CyberNEMO excels particularly in connectivity orchestration for Edge/Cloud/NFV ecosystems, developing innovative models for highly dynamic NFV infrastructures, and ensuring quantum-protected communications within multi-domain cloud-native environments. Moreover, the group is a key member of 5TONIC, an NFV experimentation ecosystem comprising three Edge/Cloud/NFV domains, further reinforcing its practical and research-driven capabilities.

 Leveraging this robust foundation and deep technical expertise, UC3M plays a vital role in CyberNEMO as one of the principal technical implementers of the network component. Specifically, UC3M provides essential technical support for the development of the project’s Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) component and actively participates in the Smart Media Distribution use case.

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TID in CyberNEMO

Telefónica Innovación Digital (TID) is a leading technology subsidiary of Telefónica, created through the merger of Telefónica I+D and Telefónica Digital in 2023. TID is dedicated to driving digital transformation by developing advanced technologies and innovative solutions across multiple domains, including artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, transport network technologies, cloud computing, and big data. The company employs a highly qualified workforce, primarily composed of engineers and technology specialists, who are actively engaged in research, development, and the implementation of cutting-edge digital platforms.

TID actively promotes open innovation, collaborating with startups, universities, and research centers through initiatives and national and european projects. This collaborative approach accelerates the adoption of disruptive technologies and supports the development of sustainable, secure, and inclusive digital solutions.

TID, as a part of the Telefónica Group, is in charge of innovation and strategic vision of emerging network and security technologies, with its main goal centered on applying new ideas, concepts, and practices in addition to developing advanced products and services. TID plans to communicate and promote the CyberNEMO results, especially Zero Trust Network capacity results, within the Telefonica Group units working with our business units and Telefonica Tech (cybersecurity services). This will include internal proofs of concept, field trials, and training, with the goal of making these units incorporate the results of CyberNEMO into our commercial service offer beyond the end of the project.

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CyberSocial Lab in CyberNEMO

CyberSocial Lab Srl Impresa Sociale (CSL) is a social enterprise committed to fostering secure and responsible innovation in disruptive technologies such as 6G, AI, and advanced security systems. CSL focuses on understanding the societal impact of these technologies by collaborating with key stakeholders. Core mission of CSL is to bridge the gap between technological advancements and societal needs, translating findings into actionable insights for businesses, policymakers, and civil society. CSL conducts research on the social implications of technology, transforms this knowledge into concrete guidelines and recommendations for responsible use, and provides education and training initiatives alongside socially-oriented cultural activities. CSL ultimately strives to ensure that technological progress aligns with the well-being and security of society.

In the context of the CyberNEMO project, CSL leads the ethics and regulatory governance (ERGO) framework, ensuring responsible innovation and compliance with EU values and rules. The ERGO framework enables the elicitation of ethics and regulatory requirements for the development of the technology and the implementation of pilots.

Moreover, CSL leads the implementation of the Privacy Protection Enforcement (PPE) technological solution, enabling data exchange in compliance with EU regulatory framework.

ERGO and the PPE are two relevant assets that will extend the CSL portfolio.

Indeed, ERGO framework is already an asset of CSL and it will be extended with the new regulations and requirements. CSL, and its sister company CyberEthics Lab. (CEL), use this framework for the providing consultancy services related to regulatory compliance.

Moreover, the PPE will allow to extend the ReD component (Regulatory-compliant data exchange), that is another asset of CSL. It is important to highlight that the ReD is the engine and the core of another asset of CSL, namely the SmaC component. SmaC has been recognised as a Key Innovation by the EC Radar Key Innovation Award (https://innovation-radar.ec.europa.eu/innovation/56307).

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4th General meeting Of CyberNEMO

CyberNEMO partners have started a two-day Plenary Meeting that is in its 4th edition. The city of Lisbon has been the scenario of this venue. The project is along the 10th month of the project and the members have been evaluating the current status of CyberNEMO.

Duting the first day the partners talked about the availability of the components and the integrated version of the platform. Also the neccesity of testing the risk methodology as it is nearly finalised. Lastly the group discussed the ethics and regulatory aspects that need to be taken into account, but also next deliverables to be submitted.

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