Meet the Consortium: NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH

NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world. By providing a combination of products and solutions that leverage the company’s experience and global resources, NEC’s advanced technologies meet the complex and ever-changing needs of its customers. NEC brings more than 100 years of expertise in technological innovation to empower people, businesses, and society. NEC Europe was founded in 1995 as a subsidiary of NEC Corporation and holds itself 15 subsidiary organizations all over Europe, which all build upon NEC’s heritage and reputation for innovation and quality by providing its expertise, solutions, and services to a broad range of customers, from telecom operators to enterprises and the public sector.

What is your organization’s role in the project? What unique contribution does it bring to the team? 

NEC Laboratories Europe brings system security expertise to the consortium, with the main role of leading the development of the Security and Trust Layer (Task T3.3), a vertical layer providing security services to the INCODE platform. On a technical level, NEC is designing a secure onboarding mechanism for IoT devices combining hardware-based attestation and blockchain technologies. Attestation forces each device to prove that its operating system and configurations are trustworthy, while the blockchain provides a tamper-resistant and highly available database for managing identities, attestation status, and metadata of the platform’s devices.

Why is this project important for your organization?  

This project is an opportunity for NEC to promote its leadership in blockchain technologies, as well as to consolidate its expertise in distributed ledger technologies and expand it towards the growing market of intelligent IoT-edge node applications. The research and development efforts invested in the project will enhance the company’s own security portfolio and contribute to the development and deployment of trustworthy, scalable, and effective management of networks and its services.

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