INTERSCT.

INTERSCT. is a virtual research institute that brings together research on Cyber-Security for the Internet-of-Things (IoT) launched by the INTERSECT project, the largest cybersecurity project ever granted by the Dutch national research council NWO. INTERSECT is a public-private partnership of more than 40 partners from academia, industry, government and civil society. The digitalization of our society and economy has led to a dependency on information and communication technologies that comes with serious cybersecurity risks. The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is becoming a pervasive infrastructure of trillions of IoT devices seamlessly connecting the cyber and the physical worlds, and overseeing our lives and economy while being completely unmanageable from a security perspective. To secure something we cannot manage, we need to re-think the security paradigm, delegating part of the security management to the system that needs to autonomously adapt to the changing environment, while remaining under our supervision, and re-think all our security technologies accordingly. Through a multidisciplinary approach, we aim at a paradigm shift; a new life cycle to engineer a secure IoT system, along with incentives and instruments to adopt the new methods and results for manufactures, governments and citizens, thereby enabling the birth and the growth of an Internet of Secure Things.