As of November 1st, CASTOR HORIZON proudly became a member of the European Cluster for Securing Critical Infrastructures (ECSCI), a collaborative network of EU- funded projects dedicated to strengthening the resilience, safety, and security of Europe’s critical infrastructures.
ECSCI fosters cross-project synergies and innovation by bringing together research initiatives that address the growing complexity of cyber and physical threats across interconnected sectors, from energy and transport to telecommunications and finance. CASTOR’s participation marks an important step toward reinforcing Europe’s leadership in security assurance and trusted connectivity across the compute continuum.
CASTOR’s Contribution to ECSCI
- Scientific Impact
Throughout the project, the CASTOR consortium aims to deliver a series of scientific publications that advance the state of the art in security assurance for the TELCO sector.
Rooted in a multidisciplinary framework, CASTOR enables compute-continuum-wide trusted path establishment, building blocks, and fundamental pillars for the dynamic detection of any indication of risk across critical infrastructures and, based on them, the representation of a network-centric trust model. This trust model represents a novel approach to ensuring verifiable and resilient communications between interconnected systems.
All CASTOR publications will be openly accessible via Zenodo, supporting transparency, collaboration, and long-term impact within the research community.
- Contributions to Standards
CASTOR aims to actively contribute to European and international standardization efforts related to security and interoperability for future-proofing safety-critical workloads.
– Trusted path establishment, routing, and management
– Remote attestation and trusted computing technologies
– Lightweight cryptography
– Secure and accountable exchange of collective perception data across all layers of the Compute Continuum
Through these contributions, CASTOR aims to push the boundaries of interoperability and assurance across distributed systems, paving the way for next-generation security frameworks that can be seamlessly adopted in future TELCO and cloud-edge infrastructures.
See how UBITECH’s standardisation efforts are shaping CASTOR’s future-proof security framework. - Participation in Workshops and Open-Source Dissemination
Openness and collaboration are core principles of the CASTOR initiative. All core building blocks developed within the project will be made available as open-source repositories on CASTOR’s official GitLab platform, ensuring transparency, reusability, and continuous improvement beyond the project’s lifetime.
The CASTOR HORIZON consortium is also committed to actively engaging with the ECSCI community through workshops, conferences, and joint events, showcasing the project’s solutions and use cases to a broad audience of stakeholders, researchers, and practitioners.
This participation will not only amplify CASTOR’s impact but also contribute to the collective knowledge base and innovation ecosystem of the ECSCI network.
