The ESUKOM project was a research project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research which lasted 2 years (2010 - 2012).

Partners

The project consortium consisted of 3 enterprises and 2 research organizations:

• NCP engineering GmbH
• Decoit GmbH
• macmon GmbH
• Fraunhofer SIT
• University of Applied Sciences Hanover

Goals

ESUKOM aims to develop a real-time security solution for enterprise networks that works based upon the correlation of metadata. A key challenge for ESUKOM is the steadily increasing adoption of mobile consumer electronic devices (smartphones) for business purposes which generates new threats for enterprise networks. The ESUKOM approach focuses on the integration of available and widely deployed security measures (both commercial and open source) based upon the Trusted Computing Group’s IF-MAP specification. The idea is to operate on a common data pool that represents the current status of an enterprise network. Currently deployed security measures will be integrated and will be able to share information as needed across this common data pool. This will enable the ESUKOM solution to enable real-time security measures.

Results

During the project a thorough security analysis of smartphones and central network infrastructure was done.

Several prototypes were created during the implementation. One demonstration of the ESUKOM project was given by Jens Lucius at the NSA Trusted Computing Conference 2011.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTnN06d-eic

Web

http://www.esukom.de/cms/front_content.php?idcat=10&lang=2
http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/