Project description
Keeping railways safe from cyberattacks
Today’s metros and high-speed railways boast increased connectivity and higher digitalisation, as well as improved comfort and passenger experience. But they are also attractive targets for cyber and physical attacks. Preventive measures should focus on hackers, hacktivists, cybercriminals and terrorists. By focussing on physical-only and cyber-only attacks, as well as combined cyber-physical attacks, the EU-funded SAFETY4RAILS project will develop methods to increase the safety and recovery of track-based intercity railway and intracity metro transportation. Studying rush hour rail transport scenarios will enable the project to provide a holistic approach to the handling of these events. It will analyse the cyber-physical resilience of metro and railway systems and deliver mitigation strategies for an efficient response to ensure reliable transportation also in situations with a high volume of passengers.
Objective
Railways and Metros are safe, efficient, reliable and environmentally friendly mass carriers, and they are becoming even more important means of transportation given the need to address climate change. However, being such critical infrastructures turns metro and railway operators as well as related intermodal transport operators into attractive targets for cyber and/or physical attacks. The SAFETY4RAILS project delivers methods and systems to increase the safety and recovery of track-based inter-city railway and intra-city metro transportation. It addresses both cyber-only attacks (such as impact from WannaCry infections), physical-only attacks (such as the Madrid commuter trains bombing in 2014) and combined cyber-physical attacks, which are important emerging scenarios given increasing IoT infrastructure integration. SAFETY4RAILS concentrates on rush hour rail transport scenarios where many passengers are using metros and railways to commute to work or attend mass events (e.g. large multi-venue sporting events such as the Olympics). When an incident occurs during heavy usage, metro and railway operators must consider many aspects to ensure passenger safety and security, e.g. carry out a threat analysis, maintain situation awareness, establish crisis communication and response, and they have to ensure that mitigation steps are taken and communicated to travellers and other users. SAFETY4RAILS will improve the handling of such events through a holistic approach. It will analyse the cyber-physical resilience of metro and railway systems and deliver mitigation strategies for an efficient response, and, in order to remain secure given ever-changing novel emerging risks, it will facilitate continuous adaptation of the SAFETY4RAILS solution; this will be validated by two rail transport operators and the results will support the re-design of the final prototype.
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80686 Munchen
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75015 Paris
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28029 Madrid
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06200 Ankara
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00161 Roma
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00195 Roma
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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16129 Genova Ge
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4133 Pratteln
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28006 Madrid
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RG6 6AH Reading
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46014 Valencia
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16129 Genova
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16128 Genova
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15341 Agia Paraskevi
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171 21 Nea Smyrni
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NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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RG6 5QA Reading
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01300 Vantaa
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1089 Budapest
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32100 Isparta
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4641213 Herzliya
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19002 Peania
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03202 Elche
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16121 Genova
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33003 Oviedo
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3511 EP Utrecht
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42507 Netanya
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20121 Milano
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08017 Barcelona
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06330 Ankara
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6340 Baar
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