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Who We Are
The Secure Systems Research Center (SSRC) leads the development of end-to-end security and resilience for cyber-physical and autonomous systems. Our multi-disciplinary approach allows us to combine domain knowledge with security and resilience technologies, delivering breakthroughs in applied research that benefit society, support smart cities and boost economic development.
SSRC is part of the CIE, a global scientific research center attracting the world’s foremost scientists and researchers. CIE leads worldwide advances in artificial intelligence, autonomous robotics, quantum computing, cryptography and quantum communications, directed energy, secure communication, smart devices, advanced materials, and propulsion and space technologies, and biotechnology fields.
CIE belongs to the Abu Dhabi Government’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), which oversees the technology research in the emirate.
What We Do
We utilize hands-on applications to demonstrate the power and scope of our pioneering technologies in the real world, and enable their rapid adoption by our commercial and industrial partners.
With a core focus on a cluster of key domains - from next generation secure smartphones to autonomous drones – our work catalyzes advanced use cases and creates proprietary technologies to improve system security and establish a secure and robust digital ecosystem for the UAE and the wider region.
Zero Trust approach to Autonomous Systems
Secure Technologies
Secure Mesh Shield
Zero Trust approach to Autonomous Systems
The Zero Trust paradigm allows security teams to plan for the possibility that vulnerabilities may exist throughout a chain of interactions among multiple systems, such as across several cloud services, data processes, storage services, and networks. The fundamental concept is to never trust and always verify the provenance of each request. Another basic principle is to assume that a breach has already occurred, making it essential to limit the blast radius of any breach.
Secure Systems for autonomous drones are designed from silicon to application, from edge to cloud and from on-premise to mobile- via zero- trust communications that entail never trusting and always verifying every component.
SSRC is developing and embedding security and resilience features in each of the key components which are based on the open-source ecosystem. We aim to leverage the flexibility, innovation and freedom offered by the open-source ecosystems to not only add value to these ecosystems but also develop our own IP on top of them. An example is the rich ecosystem and state-of-the-art RISC-V Processor, PX4 Auto Pilot, ROS2/SROS (Secure Robot Operating System), KVM/seL4 Hypervisor, Nuttx Real Time OS and Linux OS with TII/SSRC Modular Secure stack.
Secure Technologies
Secure Technologies delivers a complete secure software stack that can be used in smart phones and communicators, secure network modules and appliances, and secure autonomous drones.
SSRC is developing and embedding security and resilience features in each of the key components which are based on the open-source ecosystem. We aim to leverage the flexibility, innovation and freedom offered by the open-source ecosystems to not only add value to these ecosystems but also develop our own IP on top of them. An example is the rich ecosystem and state-of-the-art ARM/RISC-V processors KVM/seL4 Hypervisor, Linux OS, and application stack (P2P Chat Application, Cloud based Android and App Virtualization).
Secure Mesh Shield
A Secure and Resilient Mesh Communication protecting against a wide variety of security vulnerabilities and attacks (e.g., De-auth, MitM, Penetration, Routing, flooding, exfiltration).
This will enable:
- Secure and resilient human-to-human communication capabilities independent of traditional communication infrastructure.
- Secure and resilient machine-to-machine communication adaptable to changing environments and conditions.
- Setup of ad-hoc, non-permanent coverage-based deployment for mobile/static communication capabilities.
- Contributing to Open Sourcing Secure Comms technologies (BATMAN-adv routing improvements; OSF, BT-based Synchronous Flooding Mesh).
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