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Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - cyberwatching.eu (The European watch on cybersecurity privacy)

Teaser

Summary

cyberwatching.eu acknowledges the need for a comprehensive and organic view of all of the Research & Innovation (R&I) activities carried out in the EU and Associated Countries to face the growing cybersecurity & privacy challenges. cyberwatching.eu shall deliver a watch which is needed to avoid dispersion of efforts and investments and realise synergies to further encourage excellence. cyberwatching.eu will sustain the pace of innovation & growth in the global economy in the face of determined cyber-attacks that require dramatic change now.

Work performed

The first reporting period has laid some key building blocks for creating an active an engaged community.
cyberwatching.eu takes into account all aspects of the CS&P ecosystem including governance, risk management, standards and certification as outlined in our white paper (D3.2). The landscape is broad, fragmented and fast-moving by nature and we have established collaboration with key players such as ECSO and ENISA.

R&I projects are key to the ecosystem and our CS&P observatory includes overviews of over 300 EC & nationally-funded CS&P projects. Using a two-layered CS&P taxonomy (D2.1), we have mapped 134 EC-funded projects to our Technology Radar (D2.2). The radar visualizes projects according to the taxonomy and project lifetime maturity. Policy makers and potential exploiters of all types can find an illustrative overview of the current technological climate and near-term future for the CS&P sectors. Complimentary to this, 6 clusters of projects have been identified based on PCA analysis. Next we will ignite collaboration and exploiting synergies.

Focussing on Unit H1 projects, the first Concertation meeting and Service catalogue (49 projects) shows how R&I is responding to the needs of the ecosystem. Our White paper on standards gaps (D3.3) provides a comprehensive snapshot of the current EU and international landscape, leveraging input from key players such as ECSO, ENISA and the R&I community. It recognises the lack of mutual recognition and harmonization of standards and highlights the cost issues for SMEs.

CS&P is essential for a successful Digital Single Market and also for European SMEs. R&I can have a key role and by publishing methodology for assessing project MTRL (D2.3) we will enable projects to quantify their current state in order to improve their readiness levels with the aim of creating a self-assessment tool .

The SME validation and end-user club facilitates this by providing a bridge for projects to SMEs and the opportunity for uptake and collaboration. By inviting finished projects with results and SMEs to publish their results in our marketplace (D5.2) we are providing a new platform for potential exploitation opportunities.

A growing community of 1,200+ has been built with the cyberwatching.eu website the central hub hosting all assets. Active engagement (D4.3) has been established through events, webinars, questionnaires, social media and collaborations with projects and EU clusters (4.2). These have fed into deliverables.

Creating a set of sustainable project assets is a real goal. We have identified 21 exploitable project assets and a business plan (v1) based upon analysis of the current market and stakeholder needs (D5.1).

Final results

M1-18 has seen the foundations laid for an exciting second reporting period. Key outputs and their expected impact are listed below.

IMPACT 1 IDENTIFY AND PRIORITISE R&I TOPICS ACROSS THE EU
The Technology radar can support organisation strategists in decision making related to future directions.
RP2: Dissemination of D2.2 to policy makers and projects. Creation of online interactive radar tool for user entry of information.

Project clusters based on similarities of importance and applicability of CS&P characteristics can become a truly productive way for projects to collaborate on technical themes.
RP2: Strong value propositions for cluster engagement will be created to ensure buy-in for projects. Support from the EC is required in practical terms of pushing projects to engage too.

Concertation meetings are a key for data gathering and ignition of collaboration with cyberwatching.eu with projects.
RP2: Concertation meeting 2 will disseminate and validate M18-24 results including initiation of project clusters, MTRL and gaining consensus on policy recommendations.

IMPACT 2: FOSTER AND PROMOTE EUROPEAN CYBERSECURITY INNOVATION ACTIVITIES
The MTRL methodology will allow projects to trace a trajectory from a current readiness state to a target state. This is a key element of project management and business change management in terms of identifying areas where improvements can be made.
RP2: This will be used to classify project MRL to obtain a matrix of identified technologies and services, in order to identify synergies and convergences.

The end-user club provides access to insights from SMEs for project outputs and visibility and networking to members.
RP2: Engagement activities of end-user club and publication of best practices of SMEs using R&I results. Improved UX for registered members and flow of information to increase cybersecurity understanding.

The marketplace provides visibility to CS&P services from SMEs and R&I projects. It can impact on providers by providing access to RFI and RFI from potential users.
RP2: Information on Marketplace entries to be improved and UX for match-making purposes. A continuous communication campaign will improve visibility and population of marketplace.

IMPACT 3: INCREASE THE INTERNATIONAL VISIBILITY OF EU ACTIVITIES IN CYBERSECURITY
The cyberwatching.eu website is the communications hub and with events and social media, a multi-stakeholder community has been built.
RP2: Personalised UX and user journey will be introduced for stakeholders so that the large amounts of information already published and expected to be published will be easier to find and proposed to the user based on their user profile. A correlation of needs and focus for each stakeholder group will be carried out. New tools to encourage direct engagement through the website will be explored with the aim of making the website more like a collaboration platform.

The R&I Observatory and service offer catalogue provide unique online reference points of over 320+ EC-, nationally-, and regionally- funded projects. As a visibility resource for all projects it is the entry point for stakeholders in this area.
Reporting Period 2 (RP2): UX will be improved and engagement with all projects stepped up. Promotion of projects at international events will also be continued.

IMPACT 4: IDENTIFY POTENTIAL EU AND INTERNATIONAL COMMON APPROACHES IN ADDRESSING CYBERSECURITY CHALLENGES
D3.2 and D3.3 provide comprehensive overview of the CS&P landscape and standards gaps and how projects respond to the ecosystemâ€™s needs.
RP2: Both deliverables will be further disseminated and D3.2 made into a white paper. Continued Engagement with ECSO will continue with WG5 as well as continued synergies with EUNITY, AEGIS and NIST. Stronger more usable recommendations will be included in future reports, in particular that the EC can work with. This can be implemented in D3.4 in which recommendations for the EC on topics such as GDPR-related