Secure Medical Microsystems and Communications
Secure Medical Microsystems and Communications (SEMECO) has the overall goal of significantly reducing the barriers to the use of the current and revolutionary possibilities of semiconductor technology and microsystems technology in medicine. For this purpose, SEMECO creates an academic-industrial ecosystem that combines the disciplines of microelectronics, communication technology, secure runtime environments, regulatory ontologies and AI-driven knowledge systems in an interdisciplinary way. The focus is on clear and advanced clinical application scenarios.
SEMECO strives for a comprehensive transformation of the medical technology industry to enable the economically viable development of specialized medical microsystems on a larger scale.
Background information on the SEMECO future cluster can be found here
In this unique environment, secunet's mission is to design and develop new concepts and solutions that help to implement medical technology and healthcare in a secure and trustworthy manner. The focus here is on securing medical devices and software - from an IT security perspective - on the one hand, and on the other hand on developing these in line with current and, where applicable, yet-to-be-defined industry standards.
secunet is contributing its own strong expertise in the development of high-security solutions as well as its extensive experience in the development of solutions that must comply with special regulations to the project. We help the project partners to develop solutions and products that are both secure and developed in accordance with applicable regulations.
"As a vendor of high-security solutions, secunet makes a key contribution to the development of IT security solutions for modern medical technology and corresponding cloud applications."
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The SEMECO cluster at a glance
SEMECO's platform technologies are developed in interaction with specific application scenarios on the threshold of industrial implementation. The projects are organized in two main categories: The cross-sectional projects lay the technical, regulatory and organizational foundation on which the application projects can build.
Secure and trustworthy system architectures
As the name suggests, the cluster's cross-sectional project is developing a secure and trustworthy system architecture for medical technology that is designed to be modular and certifiable from the outset.
In this project, secunet is developing the technical backend for the implementation of the use cases developed in SEMECO. Networking and distributed data services in critical infrastructures require a security symbiosis between edge and cloud nodes. The project is pursuing concepts for equipping edge and cloud nodes with similar security technologies with the aim of establishing a framework of protective measures and creating a band of security from the sensor to the cloud.
In summary, the project is working with strong technology partners to lay the foundations for a scalable, secure and trustworthy platform for medical microsystems.
AI-assisted regulations for medicine and cybersecurity
The medical technology industry has a high local added value for Germany. However, due to deep methodological problems, namely very traditional and manual regulation and a lack of inherently secure system platforms, innovation cycles in medical technology are slow. The project faces up to this challenge and develops solutions that significantly shorten these cycles.
secunet is responsible for determining the normative and requirements-driven protection needs - in terms of IT security - of medical software and medical technology. In addition, a realistic and holistic modeling of different attack vectors is carried out. The aim of the work is to create a systematic and testable basis that will serve as the basis for the solutions to be developed in the further course of the project.
In summary, the sub-project is developing a knowledge representation that reflects the regulatory process, the agility of the actual system design and the software development of cyber-medical microsystems.
