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Safety and Security Standards of Space Systems, ground Segments and Satellite data assets, via prevention, detection, response and mitigation of physical and cyber threats

Project description

DEENESFRITPL

Keeping space data safe from physical and cyber threats

Space is the new frontier in cyber security. Due to the growing reliance on satellite communications for today’s economy and governments, the ground segments of space systems receive massive amounts of satellite data. Any physical or cyber attack against the storage, access or exchange of this data would pose a major public safety threat. The EU-funded 7SHIELD project will develop a holistic framework enabling the deployment of innovative services for the cyber–physical protection of ground segments. This includes e-fences, passive radars and laser technologies. The project will make use of advanced technologies for data integration, processing, analytics and visualisation as well as data security and cyberthreat protection to assess the prevention, detection and mitigation of threats, both physical and cyber. The project will be evaluated and demonstrated in five installations of ground segments of space systems.

Objective

The project addresses the security and the resilience of EU Ground Segments of Space Systems, meeting the crosscutting and the sectorial criteria of the EU critical infrastructures (2008/14). The Copernicus era has created a new market with the massive amounts of satellite data that the ground segments of space systems receive serve to the market and governmental bodies. A physical/cyber-attack to their installations or communication networks, respectively, would cause debilitating impact on public safety and security of EU citizens and public authorities. A physical attack on a space ground segment makes the distribution of satellite data problematic and, on the other hand, a cyber-attack in its data storage, access and exchange affects not only the reliability of space data, but also their FAIR standards: findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability. Current approaches do not fully exploit the recent advances in surveillance mechanisms with robotic technologies and AI. 7SHIELD will be an integrated yet flexible and adaptable framework enabling the deployment of innovative services for cyber-physical protection of ground segments, such as e-fences, passive radars and laser technologies, multimedia AI technologies, that enhance their protection capabilities, while integrating or interoperating with existing protection solutions already deployed at their installations. The framework will integrate advanced technologies for data integration, processing, and analytics, machine learning and recommendation systems, data visualization and dashboards, data security and cyber threat protection. The technological solution is co-designed with first responders’ teams and contributes to policy making, standardisation and new guidelines for contingency planning and service continuity. The project will be evaluated and demonstrated in five installations of ground segments of space systems.

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Call for proposal

H2020-SU-INFRA-2018-2019-2020

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Sub call

H2020-SU-INFRA-2019

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IA -

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ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA
Net EU contribution
€ 762 650,00
Address
Piazzale dell'agricoltura 24
00144 Roma
Italy

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Centro (IT) Lazio Roma
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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Other funding
€ 326 850,00

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EC signature date 21 April 2020
Last update: 14 September 2023

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