Section: Overall Objectives

Overall Objectives

The objective of our team is to develop an alternative vision of an open secure global network, designed to protect individual citizens and liberal societies. In many ways, securing global networks is the grand challenge of information security, as in this context virtually all security issues get combined and conspire against the system designer: An open network allows the adversary to participate — security solutions thus cannot focus on just keeping the adversary out, and a secure network naturally requires secure software and secure hardware to operate. Finally, a “network” is only useful if it has applications, so we also need to secure the applications, which implies giving the user's tools to protect themselves against social engineering attacks and malware.