Our societies are seeing an unprecedented growth of data, in large part accelerated by the availability of cloud computing facilities combined with the revamping of AI that makes heavy use of available data and produces even more. The availability of substantial compute power from a limited number of cloud service providers falls short in meeting the diverse and extensive computing demands imposed by digital services across industry and society. This inadequacy prompts a call for the integration of diverse computing paradigms within the cloud edge continuum to address the limitations of available applications and services provisioned by few cloud service providers in isolation.
The Cybersecurity & AI at the Edge project addresses the EU objectives promoted in the Green Deal and Cybersecurity strategies by innovating the multi-provider cloud-edge continuum in two main directions. First, it aims to bring AI at the edge, by providing scalability and resource efficiency through the development of cooperative, distributed AI algorithms, optimising data, energy, and processing resources while adapting to the different computational environments and capabilities. Second, the project emphasises the creation of security, privacy-enhancing, and trust-aware services to ensure resilience and compliance in distributed AI-enabled applications.