Governance (WP2)
• P1: Developed a bottom-up governance structure to address the cybersecurity challenges through capitalising on community-derived capabilities and ensuring robust cooperation. The results were evaluated in a small-scale pilot and fed into a recursive evaluation and refinement structure.
• P2: Validated the assumptions on the governance structure and improved the governance model. Carried out case studies on establishing CHECKs (in France and Spain) and on developing the European cybersecurity ecosystem.
• P3: Refined its approach for cybersecurity community governance in the EU, addressing urgent cybersecurity challenges by capitalising on community-derived capabilities and ensuring robust cooperation.
Research (WP3)
• P1: Identified and grouped cybersecurity research and innovation through technology assets and related functional cybersecurity architecture.
• P2: A Blueprint Architecture focused on cybersecurity functional framework based on the research work based produced
• P3: Book "Workshop on Digital Sovereignty in Cyber Security: New Challenges in Future Vision" published with Springer in Communications in Computer and Information Science
Road Mapping (WP4)
• P1: Based on stakeholder requirements, identified the most important cybersecurity research directions.
• P2: Created a roadmap for research for the application demonstrators, explained its contribution to European Digital Sovereignty and identified opportunities and threats.
• P3: Produced the Blue Book: The future Research Roadmap for Cyber Security
https://cybersec4europe.eu/our-results/books/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)Application Demonstrators (WP5)
• P1: Identified the requirements of the demonstrator use cases, supporting project research activities and roadmaps.
• P2: Continued with the demonstrators and published blueprints, validation strategies and results and refined the set of use cases.
• P3: Completed the specification and set-up of Phase-2 demonstration cases. The subsequent validation of the use cases summary includes lessons learned for future work.
Education (WP6)
• P1: Building on the direct feedback of more than 100 Directors of Studies at European universities, indicated Europe’s strengths and weaknesses and highlighted key quality criteria such as on MOOCs for cyber ranges.
• P2: Designed an education and professional framework which built 18 relevant job profiles.
• P3: Mapped skills of knowledge framework to ESCO. Surveyed serious games for human-factor gap.
Tools (WP7)
• P1: Built the first components of a portable lightweight virtual lab environment for cybersecurity exercise engagement and efficient learning, enhanced several open tools for certification and validation, and reviewed the role of cybersecurity certification and its implementations.
• P2: The Cyber Sandbox Creator provided as a fully open-source environment.
• P3: The analytical tool seccerts and the
https://cybersec4europe.eu/open-tool-portal(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie) for both end- and expert users
Standardisation (WP8)
• P1: Mapped the project standardisation work and matched the relevant standards and ongoing projects to the project's research challenges and verticals to enable a two-way knowledge transfer.
• P2: Established the liaison with WGs in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 and updated the participants’ standardisation engagement plans.
• P3: Updated the standards mapping, made an overview of the differences and similarities of 8 SDOs and gave recommendations to the EC and ECCC about standardisation.
Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation (WP9)
• P1: Communicated the progress of CyberSec4Europe, targeting a broad audience and highlighting achievements.
• P2: Managed the website and social media accounts, including weekly news postings and a series of video interviews, webinars and further brand development.
• P3: Produced a book, 'Stories - the narrative of a European cybersecurity community'. Organised the Momentum! event showcasing the project results, exploitable and innovative assets and a series of forward-looking keynote speakers and panellists.
Community Building (WP10)
• P1: Reported on the project's impact on the European cybersecurity community ecosystem. Organised the 2019 concertation event with about 150 attendees resulting in detailed recommendations for strategic cybersecurity issues.
• P2: Organised and hosted CONVERGENCE, the second concertation event, in 2020. featuring the four pilots, focus groups, ECSO, and EU institutions and agencies.
• P3: Organised CONVERGENCE NEXT in 2022 in order to provide a full snapshot of the work and achievements of all 4 Pilots and ECSO during the project period – concertation involving the European Commission, the European Institutions, the relevant stakeholders, all 4 Pilots, ECSO and the cybersecurity community in the broadest sense.
