Customer Premises Equipment Security

This project proposal describes acollaborative effort between TeliaSonera, SonyEricsson, Ericsson, Lund Universityand SICS to make security analysis and security architecture design for CustomerPremises Equipment (CPE) such as residential gateways. A CPE is a key operatorbusiness enabler but it is also very sensitive to attacks, both externalnetwork attacks and “inside” attacks from the customer itself. The purpose ofthis project is to define a security architecture for secure boot, securitymeasurement and configuration/software management of CPEs including study ofscalability issues in the management system. In addition, the project aims atincreasing the competence on trusted computing and secure virtualizationtechnologies among the project participants as trusted computing and securevirtualization are fundamental building blocks for a CPE security architecture.

In January 2011, the project arrange a two day workshop on trusted computing, security and virtualization. More information is available at:  http://www.sics.se/node/7345