Oct 2026· Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Security and Verification in Computing
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The fifth issue of the ELASTIC project newsletter marks the project's final stretch towards its conclusion in February 2027, as the consortium moves from mid-term results to system-level integration and validation. This issue covers ELASTIC's participation at EuCNC & 6G Summit 2026 in Málaga (Booth 76), where both demonstrators were shown live, and the technical plenary in Belgrade. It presents the project's integration focus: secure WebAssembly orchestration with Propeller, remote attestation and confidential workload migration, eBPF-based security, federated learning and AI-powered intrusion detection. Further highlights include a general-audience article on the project, the component booklet now on Zenodo, ELASTIC's co-organisation of the WACE 2026 workshop at ACM Middleware (Tarragona, 14–18 December 2026), the recording and slides of the joint ELASTIC & 6G-PATH webinar, collaborations with SAFE-6G and 6G-PATH, and recent scientific publications at KDD 2026 (Lasso) and ARES 2026 (WasmStone).
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