
doi: 10.3233/faia230231
handle: 11367/127617
An important objective being pursued by the European Commission is the establishment of a unified data market where stakeholders can safely and confidently share and exchange data in standardized formats. This trend is supported by numerous initiatives, promoting the creation of European Common data spaces, and it is already in full swing in several sectors, such as energy and health. Among the many initiatives for building common data spaces, FIWARE appears to be one of the most promising. FIWARE promotes the use of Digital Twin technology to build distributed infrastructures for facilitating real-time data sharing in collaborative environments. By fostering an open and collaborative approach to software development and providing several building blocks of IT architectures for a number of domains (specifically: Smart AgriFood, Smart Cities, Smart Energy, Smart Industry, and Smart Water), FIWARE facilitates the creation of Digital Twins of real-world Industry 4.0 setups in a shared data space, which is typically hosted in the cloud. This paper addresses the security issues in a typical functional FIWARE architecture and provides a detailed description of a reference solution which ensures data confidentiality and integrity throughout the data life cycle, i.e. from the generation to the consumption phase. The proposed solution strongly relies on Commercial Off The Shelf Trusted Execution Environment technologies (namely: Intel SGX and Arm TrustZone) to provide effective protection of data-in-use. Protection of data-at-rest and data-in-transit is achieved by means of advanced cryptographic techniques and secure communication protocols, respectively.
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