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ECOSSIAN Final Review Meeting

2017-07-07T10:40:18+00:00

On 6th July 2017, the final review meeting took place in Brussels. Already the day before, the consortium partners came together for a preparation meeting at KU Leuven premises, where the planned presentations, especially the presentations of the demonstrations and videos of WP5 and WP6, were rehearsed. After an in-depth wrap-up and follow-up of fundamental explanations of the work performed, the consortium partners enjoyed a last common dinner, where discussions and talks continued. On Thursday, the day has come and the final review meeting took place where partners were pleased to present the project work and results. After a warm welcome by the Project Officer and the Coordinator, each WP lead presented the work performed and the main achievements of the review period of their respective work package. A short question and answer session followed after each presentation. Finally, the technical lead summed up the project results and opened a final Q&A session. After the EC internal meeting, positive feedback and a preliminary evaluation was provided by the PO and the reviewers. All in all it was a great and engaging meeting with a lot of interesting presentations and discussions. The whole consortium is happy to have successfully completed the project and is looking forward to future collaboration.

ECOSSIAN Final European Demonstration

2017-05-03T06:08:39+00:00

After three years of hard work, the results of the ECOSSIAN project were presented in the final European Demonstration, which took place on 26^th April 2017. A prototype system has been developed, which facilitates preventive functions like threat monitoring, early indicator and real threat detection, alerting, support of threat mitigation and disaster management. The ECOSSIAN technical architecture includes three levels of operations centres (at Critical Infrastructure operational national and European levels), along with interfaces to legacy systems (e.g. SCADA – Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition). The system has been validated in Critical Infrastructure scenarios of the sectors Finance, Transportation and Energy. The operational demonstration dedicated to the use-case protection of European Critical Infrastructures against cyber-attacks, was hosted in the Airbus Group premises in Elancourt near Paris/France. Approximately 80 participants attended the successful event, which was accompanied with interesting questions and discussions during an informal cocktail reception and technology exhibition after the demonstration.

Third and final ECOSSIAN workshop

2017-04-27T12:20:50+00:00

On 25^th April 2017 the third and final ECOSSIAN workshop and Advisory Board meeting took place. The workshop was an affiliated event to the 2nd IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy EuroS&P 2017 in Paris and attracted approximately 30 participants. The aim of the workshop was to present the major outcomes of new technological as well as political concepts and dimensions with regards to critical infrastructure protection. The workshop included an introduction to the basic concepts of operational, organizational, legal and technical frameworks addressed by ECOSSIAN, while being guided by interactive discussions with a variety of highly motivated experts.

Portuguese national demonstration

2017-02-17T09:36:06+00:00

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.

Synergies between WISER and ECOSSIAN

2017-02-13T09:31:44+00:00

WISER (Wide-Impact Cyber Security Risk Framework) is a European H2020 Innovation Action that puts cyber-risk management at the very heart of good business practice thanks to a novel model-based cyber-risk management framework able to assess and mitigate cyber risks in real time, which also incorporates socio-economic impacts of cyber risks. The WISER Framework is provided in terms of risk platform as a service (RPaaS) consisting of three modes of operation that collectively represent the WISER portfolio:

CyberWISER Light , already available for free on WISER website, targets SMEs and provides a user-friendly tool to increase awareness through self-assessment.
CyberWISER Essential (coming out in early 2017) targets SMEs and ICT systems in general, and provides a pre-packaged solution for real-time risk assessment.
CyberWISER Plus (coming out in early 2017) targets highly complex cyber systems such as critical infrastructures, and provides on-demand services for real-time and cross-system assessment of cyber risks.

On top of this, WISER is facilitating the uptake of a cyber-security culture through a series of additional free services such as:

CyberWISER SEIT, an online tool that calculates the estimation of economic and non-economic impacts of cyber attacks on an organisation. Impacts can be direct or indirect. Target audiences: SMEs and small IT teams in public administration.
Cartography of European Cyber Security Strategies: an interactive map that analyses national cyber security strategies in terms of capacity building, legal frameworks, public private partnerships and best practices for risk management with downloadable reports.

ECOSSIAN technical meeting

2016-10-04T11:28:52+00:00

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

2016-06-07T11:30:06+00:00

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

2016-02-16T14:18:40+00:00

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

2015-09-22T13:47:40+00:00

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

2015-04-01T08:23:28+00:00

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

2014-12-10T07:26:52+00:00

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

2014-10-29T14:01:33+00:00

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

2014-07-10T13:33:28+00:00

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