The nature of digital communications, services and infrastructures is constantly in flux, driven by both societal and business needs as well as technological innovation. Enterprise and critical infrastructure architectures are becoming dispersed , heterogeneous and multi-layered. This creates a complex attack surface that is prohibitively difficult to defend. At the same time the range and sophistication of cyber-attacks is also growing. This makes it more difficult to avoid disruptions caused by malicious cyber activities that threaten economies, as well as the freedoms and values of Europe.
Digital infrastructure security teams lack the tools to adapt their security defences to the complexity of networks and services. Often, the defence systems not prepared for new security approaches such as Zero Trust and may lack operational capacity required to operate effectively.
Resilmesh aims to provide tools to help defenders manage the complexity and diversity of services and infrastructure. It will also provide algorithms and tools to enable early attack detection and prediction to combat sophisticated APTs as well as tools and processes to improve cyber resilience, including building resilience into the Resilmesh platform itself. Moreover Resilmesh aims to support strengthened competitiveness of European security sector products and services
To support these aims Resilmesh has defined the following six key objectives:
ENABLE-Develop a data aggregation and tools collaboration framework to adapt security defense systems to the needs of complex and heterogeneous cyber system infrastructures and applications.
UNDERSTAND- Develop a digital service structure awareness system to improve resilience through greater understanding of cyber system structure and dependencies.
PREPARE- Improve capacity building, disruption preparedness and resilience awareness.
DETECT: Develop algorithms and tools to for early and ongoing attack detection and prediction
ASSESS: Develop a situation assessment system to view and project network level risk.
EVALUATE &TRANSFER: Evaluate the ResilMesh concept in near production environments and demonstrate the extensibility and transferability of the ResilMesh system across multiple IT and OT sectors.
As a result of fulfilling these objectives Resilmesh expects that digital service providers will have increased organisational and operational security capacity to withstand APT’s and an increased awareness and use of AI in cyber defence and recovery leading to better protection for critical services as well as more resilient infrastructures and services
