Securing Networks of the Future: A Programmable Security Monitoring Platform for Cloud Continuum

As digital ecosystems evolve toward more integrated and complex architectures, the Cloud Continuum emerges as a vital model that intends to encompass the advantages of cloud, edge, and extreme-edge computing paradigms. This integration, whilst promising in terms of scalability and responsiveness, poses unprecedented security challenges, particularly in enforcing dynamic and adaptive security mechanisms across diverse environments. Existing security solutions may fall short in terms of real-time adaptability and unified management, necessitating a novel approach to orchestrating seamless security. Therefore, this paper presents a programmable security monitoring platform designed to bridge the gap of Cloud Continuum, offering a scalable, distributed, real-time security management framework that accommodates the dynamic nature of forthcoming 6G networks. Furthermore, such an article is also supported and powered by 6G key enablers such as AI-driven Security-as-a-Service to automate security orchestration functionalities using security closed-loops and secure dataspace management for handling and sharing data in distributed scenarios, which are parts of the main functionalities of the ROBUST-6G project.