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Serenity is a R&D project funded by the European Union and it was launched in January 2006. The main issue of Serenity lies in the fact that the computing and networking technologies that will be embedded in everyday objects - the concept of AmI - entail strong requirements for confidentiality, availability, integrity and dependability. In these new environments, the concepts of “system” and “application” as we know them today will disappear, evolving from static architectures with
well-defined pieces of hardware, software, communication links, boundaries and owners, to architectures that will be sensitive, adaptive, context-aware and responsive to users’ needs and habits.

These AmI ecosystems will offer highly distributed dynamic services in large scale environments that will be  heterogeneous, and nomadic, where computing nodes will be omnipresent and communication infrastructures will be dynamically assembled. The combination of heterogeneity,
mobility, dynamism, sheer number of devices, along with the growing demands for security and dependability (S&D), is going to make the S&D provision for these ecosystems increasingly difficult to achieve with existing security engineering mechanisms and tools.