Project description
Boosting cyber security for IoT and AI-enabled ICT systems
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of things (IoT) have increased exponentially in recent years, and so have cybersecurity concerns. The EU-funded IRIS project will address the challenges of IoT- and AI-driven ICT systems through a collaborative-first approach centred around computer security incident response teams (CERTs/CSIRTs). Specifically, the project equips CERTs/CSIRTs with a state-of-the-art incident response toolkit for assessing, detecting, responding to and sharing information regarding threats and vulnerabilities of IoT and AI-driven ICT systems. The project will establish the first dedicated online training and cyber exercises to prepare CERTs/CSIRTs to collaboratively protect critical infrastructures and systems against cross-border AI and IoT threats. Pilot demonstrators will be conducted in Helsinki, Tallinn, and Barcelona.
Objective
Uptake of IoT and AI driven ICT systems in Europe is crucial for our common future, but it is dependent on our strategic ability to protect these systems from cyber threats and attacks on their privacy. IRIS addresses this challenge with a collaborative-first approach centered around CERTs/CSIRTs. From a technological perspective, it deploys (i) autonomous detection of IoT and AI threats, enriched with (ii) privacy-aware intelligence sharing and collaboration, and (iii) advanced data protection and accountability. Crucially, IRIS introduces (iv) the first dedicated online training and cyber exercises to prepare CERTs/CSIRTs to collaboratively protect critical infrastructures and systems against cross-border AI and IoT threats. IRIS will be validated in three pilot demonstrators, focussing in the IoT, AI and cross-border dimensions, across three existing smart city environments (in Helsinki, Tallinn and Barcelona), involving the associated national/governmental CERTs/CSIRTs, cybersecurity authorities and municipalities. The scenarios will contain real-life inspired cyber incidents that will build up into pilots at all levels (from local to national and to cross-border) to showcase the versatility of the IRIS solution. With 19 key partners from around Europe and 5 CERTs/CSIRTs as Associated Partners, IRIS’s solid consortium composition and work plan prioritises the effectiveness needed for quick real-world adoption and impact. Moreover, integration will be carried out on the EU’s existing MeliCERTes platform, with the support of NETCOMPANY-INTRASOFT, while training will build upon THALES’s existing cyber range, and ECSO will ensure the contribution to standards and policymaking. With the formal support of the four H2020 Cybersecurity Competence Network Pilot Projects, IRIS will also actively engage with the full scope of the cybersecurity ecosystem in Europe.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringurban engineeringsmart cities
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitydata protection
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
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1000 029 LISBOA
Portugal
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Participants (18)
1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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020976 Bucuresti
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1253 Luxembourg
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92230 Gennevilliers
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28760 Tres Cantos Madrid
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28108 Alcobendas
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5616 LZ Eindhoven
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1101 NICOSIA
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80024 Cardito
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75015 PARIS 15
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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106 82 ATHINA
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2628 CN Delft
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12616 Tallinn
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08034 Barcelona
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10177 Athina
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08018 Barcelona
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00130 Helsinki
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