CASTOR Horizon

The project CASTOR addresses the cybersecurity challenges posed by the shift from cloud-centric computing to the compute continuum. The compute continuum includes hardware and software infrastructures that are often untrusted and have constantly changing trust-states. CASTOR develops and evaluates technologies to enable trustworthy continuum-wide communications. It provides solutions to turn user requirements into security and network policies that ensure reliable and optimized communication paths. It introduces methods for checking the trustworthiness of network components and creating secure connections across different providers, tested in real-world environments. CASTOR will be tested in four real-world use cases involving the sharing of security and safety-critical information. Its innovations will be thoroughly evaluated across three different application areas using a dedicated testbed designed for each scenario. The Project CASTOR is an Innovation Action funded by the European Commission's Horizon Europe Programe starting October 1st, 2024. --- Funded by EU's Horizon Europe programme under Grant Agreement number 101167904 (CASTOR). Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. This work has received funding from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).