The first year of the CYBERWISER.eu project has witnessed relevant achievements that put the project in the correct direction towards its future success.
The CYBERWISER.eu team completed the elicitation of the business, functional, technical and legal requirements, delivering D2.1 (initial version) and D2.2 (final). The main resulting set of requirements presented are software and system requirements.
The requirements are leveraged to produce the design and architecture of CYBERWISER.eu aiding the technological development of the platform. The design task produced D2.3 (initial version) and D2.5 (final). The team followed a top-down approach with two general diagrams with coarse and fine-grained detail respectively. The list of components, their role and how they would be inter-related was made clear. Then, the team found important to describe the product to implement from different perspectives, hence more views of the design were provided. These were a perspective based on software components structure, another considering software deployment, a data view and also the technology stack with the set of technologies used to develop the different components. Then the internal details of the components and how they match the requirements were made clear and documented accordingly, as well as the identification of the relevant user interfaces.
Following the requirements and the design, the team worked in parallel to develop models, tools and carry out the integration. D2.4 documents the initial version of the cyber range tools. It sums up the current state of the development activities, which progress on track to implement the requirements. D3.1 is the initial report on integration activities, describing the integration environment and the integration methodology followed, based on an agile approach with monthly sprints easing continuous and smooth progress which is confirmed via regression tests. The integration activities carried out and the status of the components and interfaces are documented. It also describes the next steps and the associated demo to showcase the integration achieved up to date.
D4.1 presents the initial version of the training material to be provided in CYBERWISER.eu. The team has built a learning pathway in line with ISO 27001 and ISO 27005. The perspective of the three pilots has been considered along the process. This has triggered the work about scenario development. Also, the evaluation criteria to assess the performance of the users in real-time are developed and documented in D4.2.
The requirements posed by the pilots were gathered and compiled in D5.1 which brings a list of exercises proposed by the pilots in accordance with their interests. These exercises are thoroughly described and will be the first ones to be actually implemented in the platform in synergy with WP3 and WP4. The 3 pilots have already started and the pilot teams are getting familiar with the currently available version of the platform, and will get periodic updates till the final version to be delivered at the end of the project.
D6.1 reports on the activities for communication and stakeholder engagement carried out in the first 3 months of the project (September 2018 - November 2018) and defines the strategy and foreseen activities for the period December 2018 - February 2020. Besides, D6.2 documents the first version of the business models and commercialization strategy. The CYBERWISER.eu offering is structured like a pyramid with four different levels, namely (from bottom to top): Primer (freemium); and Basic, Intermediate and advance (paying). A first approach to the value proposition is developed, the competitive landscape is analyzed, the market positioning is presented and also a SWOT analysis is provided.
