Nowadays, there is a trend to integrate trusted computing concepts into autonomic systems. In this context, the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) was designed to enrich the previously defined trusted platforms. TEE is commonly known as an isolated processing environment in which applications can be securely executed irrespective of the rest of the system. In this work, we propose an architecture in which embedded autonomic systems rely on the properties of TEE to guarantee both their self-protection and self-healing.