The IRIS Project achieved all of its objectives and milestones. Overall, project activities were executed as planned and all project deliverables were submitted.
Three IRIS pilots were conducted to demonstrate and evaluate the efficacy of IRIS tools and methodologies, consisting of three realistic use cases featuring 3 smart cities in 3 European countries: Barcelona, Tallinn, and Helsinki.
The IRIS team thus completed the software development, integration, demonstration, and evaluation of all IRIS tools, including:
1) Automated Threat Analytics Module (ATA);
2) Collaborative Threat Intelligence (CTI) Module;
3) Data Protection and Accountability (DPA) Module;
4) Enhanced MeliCERTes Ecosystem (EME) Module;
5) Virtual Cyber Range (VCR) Module.
These tools provide the capability to collect data from IoT sensors, enable threat detection, orchestrate incident response and facilitate information sharing. The innovative end-to-end integration of these capabilities is expected to bring a significant impact to the CERT/CSIRT networks.
Dissemination and communication activities progressed well with most targets met or exceeded, through high impact initiatives:
- The IRIS project built strong synergies with other similar H2020 projects, namely ARCADIAN, SECANT, SENTINEL, IDUNN, ELECTRON, TRUST aWARE, SPATIAL, and ERATOSTHENES.
- Also, IRIS has been a member of the European Cluster of Securing Critical Infrastructure (ECSCI) and participated in two workshops organized by the cluster.
- Through the IRIS partner ECSO, a Community of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) was leveraged for dissemination and communication purposes. The CISO Community served as a cornerstone for the IRIS project, fulfilling two major functions. It acted as a catalyst for leveraging project outcomes and provided critical validation for IRIS Solutions. This collaborative engagement ensured that the IRIS solutions remained grounded in real-world cybersecurity needs. The CISO Community has grown into a formidable network, now comprising 500 CISOs (or equivalent positions) from 29 European countries. This makes it one of the largest cross-sector and cross-border community of cybersecurity executives in Europe.
- The consortium organized three Stakeholders & Industrial Workshops, as well as a Final Exploitation Workshop, to set the conditions for stakeholder engagement during the project and for future exploitation of the project outcomes.
