Project description
Advanced solutions to protect energy sector from cyberattacks
The move towards more agile, connected, intelligent and data-driven energy systems, and their interconnection with our day-to-day lives, means that there is a major increase in cyber exposure of energy systems leading to major safety and privacy incidents. The EU-funded CyberSEAS project improves the resilience of energy supply chains by protecting them from disruptions generated by complex attack scenarios. CyberSEAS delivers an open and extendable ecosystem of 30 customisable security solutions providing effective support for key activities, such as risk assessment; interaction with end devices; secure development and deployment; real-time security monitoring; skills improvement and awareness; and certification, governance and cooperation. CyberSEAS solutions will be validated through experimental campaigns consisting of numerous attack scenarios.
Objective
CyberSEAS (Cyber Securing Energy dAta Services) ambition is to improve the resilience of energy supply chains, protecting them from disruptions that exploit the enhanced interactions and extended involvement models of stakeholders and consumers in complex attack scenarios, characterised by the presence of legacy systems and the increasing connectivity of data feeds. It has 3 strategic objectives: 1) countering the cyber risks related to highest impact attacks against EPES; 2) protecting consumers against personal data breaches and attacks; and 3) increasing the security of the Energy Common Data Space. All three objectives are equally important, since cyber-criminals are shifting tactics to favour multi-stage attacks in which stealing sensitive data is a precondition for the real attack, and enables them to maximise damage and profits (while traditionally infrastructure cyber-attacks used to be direct attacks to the machinery and typically targeted control systems, not data). Threat actors, especially large ones such as nation states, also carry out complex attacks that leverage supply chain dependencies, and this trend continues to grow, as highlighted in the July 2020 analysis by the Atlantic Council. Likewise, with the transition to scenarios where users are proactively involved, prosumer data is becoming more and more sensitive. To achieve these objectives, CyberSEAS delivers an open and extendable ecosystem of 30 customisable security solutions providing effective support for key activities, and in particular: risk assessment; interaction with end devices; secure development and deployment; real-time security monitoring; skills improvement and awareness; certification, governance and cooperation. CyberSEAS solutions are validated through experimental campaigns consisting of 100+ attack scenarios, tested in 3 labs before moving out to one of 6 piloting infrastructures across 6 European countries. Out of the 30 solutions, 20 will reach TRL8+ and 10 TRL7.
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00144 ROMA
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00185 Roma
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82024 Taufkirchen
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80686 Munchen
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11316 Tallinn
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20500 Mondragon
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2000 Maribor
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1000 Ljubljana
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52062 Aachen
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013685 Bucuresti
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48930 Getxo Vizcaya
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16129 Genova Ge
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34100 Chalkida
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171 21 Nea Smyrni
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48170 Zamudio
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07022 Berchidda
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07010 Benetutti
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1000 Ljubljana
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1000 Ljubljana
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1000 Ljubljana
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10000 Zagreb
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00380 Helsinki
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10138 Tallinn
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10138 Tallinn
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030786 BUCURESTI SECTOR 3
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011837 Bucuresti
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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2000 Maribor
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1000 Ljubljana
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