Itani Studying Translation Potential Of Secure & Efficient Software Updates In Industrial Internet of Things Architectures
Wassim Itani, Associate Professor, Computer Science, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), received funding for the project: “I-Corps: Translation Potential of Secure and Efficient Software Updates in Industrial Internet of Things Architectures (IIoT).”
He is addressing several critical challenges, including limited computing and network resources of IIoT devices, lack of operational and security standards, absence of a cryptographic root of trust, unique operational requirements of IIoT networks, security-sensitive applications, and substantial financial losses from security breaches.
Internet of Things-Security (IoT-S) offers competitive advantages such as an end-to-end security scheme for firmware/software update integrity and authenticity verification, a hardware-based cryptographic root of trust, and energy- and performance-efficient cryptographic schemes. IoT-S will focus on the transportation and energy industrial sectors. These sectors are the target of the customer discovery processes due to their large scale IIoT deployments, and the increasing number of security breaches witnessed in these sectors.
Itani received $50,000 from the National Science Foundation for this project. Funding began in June 2025 and will end in late May 2026.
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