Soteria - Demonstrating the Security Capabilities of the Morello System in the e-commerce Vertical Industrial Segment

The Soteria project is a cyber security demonstrator for the e-commerce industrial market. Soteria is motivated by the commitment of The Hut Group (THG) to have the best possible security protection for its e-commerce business. This extends to wanting to understand how future hardware, as represented by the Arm Morello SoC, could improve the security of its business and enable the development of new cyber security services and products. 

The project is led by THG, a world leader in the e-commerce sector, where it operates by ensuring that its e-commerce services and data centre hosting provide advanced security technologies. THG's e-commerce platform runs on data centres across the world, and it is under constant attack due to its prominent market position. THG has accumulated wide-ranging cyber security experience, and a growing volume of collected data from such attacks. The University of Manchester is providing technical expertise on managed runtimes, smart network technologies, and business optimisation. The University of Oxford is providing expertise in formal verification. 

The economic benefits of the project are directly focused on reducing the potential impact of security breaches and attacks, and the costs required to secure digital businesses and services. The societal impacts include improved public perception of the benefits of technology, and less disruption to the daily activities of individuals in society due to security incidents and service outages across public, government, and paid-for digital services. Demonstrating the enhanced security capabilities and development of related products and technology strengthens the global and, especially, UK impact to online business, the public and government services and objectives. Finally, the proposed ingredients could constitute the basis for developing a software ecosystem capable of protecting against future cyber-attacks. 

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