Blogs from Barbara Gaggl

Portuguese national demonstration

gaggl@technikon.at (Barbara Gaggl) — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 09:36:06 +0000

The Portuguese national demonstration took place on 16th February, hosted by partner Infraestruturas de Portugal (IP).

There were about 60 attendees, from a representative set of infrastructures, government, industry and academia. Every step of the demonstration worked exactly as it should and the ECOSSIAN consortium got good feedback from the stakeholders regarding the project maturity and objectives. Participants raised a couple of questions and provided valuable feedback after the demonstration. Further interesting questions and discussions arised during a common lunch with all participants.

All in all the Portuguese demonstration was a huge success.

ECOSSIAN technical meeting

gaggl@technikon.at (Barbara Gaggl) — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:28:52 +0000

From 21^st—22^nd September 2016 , the ECOSSIAN consortium met for a technical face-2-face meeting in Rome, Italy. The meeting was hosted by partner Poste Italiane. Besides discussions regarding the technical work for the upcoming months, the meeting was mainly dedicated to the preparation of the Italian National demonstration, which will take place on 8^th November in Rome. On the first day of the meeting, a technical workshop for the Italian demonstration was organized by the demo lead Cassidian Cybersecurity SAS. On the second day the concept of the Italian demonstration was presented to the entire ECOSSIAN consortium and feedback was provided. Additionally, rehearsal and training sessions on the ECOSSIAN components involved in the national demonstrations took place. Another focus was put on the planning of dissemination activities for the last project period. Discussions on the 3^rd ECOSSIAN workshop were held and possible events were evaluated. Last but not least the compliance of several requirements with the ECOSSIAN system was discussed.

ECOSSIAN 3rd General Assembly Meeting, 2nd Workshop and Advisory Board Meeting

gaggl@technikon.at (Barbara Gaggl) — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 11:30:06 +0000

The ECOSSIAN consortium met for the 3^rd General Assembly meeting and the 2^nd Workshop and Advisory Board meeting that was organized in Dublin, Ireland, from 11^th to 13^th of May 2016. The meeting hosted by ESPION started with an overview of the technical status and progress during the past year and a summary of the main achievements. Besides individual work package status updates and their achieved results, demonstrations were performed. Furthermore, expectations related to the 2^nd review meeting that will take place in July were discussed. The national and final demonstrations were planned and a roadmap for upcoming tasks and responsibilities was defined. One of the highlights of the meeting was certainly the Advisory Board (AB) meeting, which was characterized by interesting in-depth discussions and valuable feedback and comments from the external advosors. Alltogether 4 Advisory Board members and 2 representatives of the related FP7 GAMMA project actively participated in this AB meeting. Summing up, it was a constructive and effective meeting, which defined directions and actions towards the preparation of the upcoming review meeting as well as for the 3^rd and last project year.

ECOSSIAN Technical Meeting

gaggl@technikon.at (Barbara Gaggl) — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:18:40 +0000

The ECOSSIAN consortium met for the technical meeting that was held in Villach, Austria, from 11^th to 12^th of February 2016. The meeting hosted by Technikon started with an assessment of the external stakeholder workshops and discussions on how to integrate the received feedback. Aside from debates on individual WPs and deliverables, first demonstrations of the ECOSSIAN O-SOC and N-SOC were presented. The role of the E-SOC was discussed and a roadmap for upcoming tasks and responsibilities defined. Further, WP6 “National and European Demonstration” was successfully kicked-off.

ECOSSIAN Technical Meeting

gaggl@technikon.at (Barbara Gaggl) — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:47:40 +0000

Tervetuloa suomeen - Welcome to Finland!

From 15th to 16th September 2015 an ECOSSIAN technical meeting was hosted by partner VTT in Oulu, Finland.The aim of the project was to review the current status of the project and to discuss the further progress and upcoming deliverables. Besides individual WP progress reviews, architecture discussions were a major part of the meeting. Also the consideration of reviewers' feedback after the first review meeting and the involvement of external stakeholders were eagerly discussed.

ECOSSIAN Technical Meeting

gaggl@technikon.at (Barbara Gaggl) — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:23:28 +0000

From 26th to 27th March 2015 the ECOSSIAN partners met for a technical meeting in Lisbon. The meeting, which was hosted by partner Polícia Judiciária, started off with a review of the current status of the project. After 10 successful months of the project, the submission of several deliverables and the achievement of the first major milesone "Requirements identified", plans for the further progress have been discussed. A roadmap and schedule for the next couple of months have been defined and WP5 "Integration, Preparation of demonstration and evaluation" has been kicked-off.

Within the course of the technical meeting the ECOSSIAN partners also had the unique chance to visit partner REFER's Operational Control Centre.

ECOSSIAN Technical Meeting

gaggl@technikon.at (Barbara Gaggl) — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 07:26:52 +0000

In November 2014 the ECOSSIAN partners met for a technical meeting, which was hosted by partner Poste Italiane. The Consortium could look back at a quite successful first half year and make plans for the further project progress. The meeting was started off with ensuring that all partners have a common understanding of the overarching goal and show strong commitment for a "guiding European use case". Several work packages were kicked-off and important and constructive progress discussions that are essential for the further development of the project took place.

ECOSSIAN Publications

gaggl@technikon.at (Barbara Gaggl) — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:01:33 +0000

We are proud to announce that AIT has already reported 3 publications within the first few months of the ECOSSIAN project:

Semi-Synthetic Data Set Generation for Security Software Evaluation, IEEE, 2014 (published)
Trusted information sharing for Cyber Situational Awareness, Springer (submitted)
Combating Advanced Persistent Threats: From Network Event Correlation to Incident Detection, Elsevier, 2014 (published)

ECOSSIAN Kick-Off Meeting

gaggl@technikon.at (Barbara Gaggl) — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:33:28 +0000

The FP7 ECOSSIAN Project (GA No 607577) has started on 1 June 2014. The kick-off meeting in Munich was great success!