Project description
A boost for Europe’s health security
Health services, being critical infrastructures, are vulnerable to attacks due to their heavy reliance on information systems and delicate balance between optimisation, ethics and recovery. It’s important to improve physical and cyber security within healthcare. In this context, the EU-funded SAFECARE project will promote new technologies and approaches to strengthen threat prevention, detection, incident response and impact mitigation. It will also ensure compliance with European regulations pertaining to ethics and privacy in health services. To simulate real-world attack scenarios, project pilots will be conducted in the hospitals of Marseille, Turin and Amsterdam, with the active participation of security and health practitioners. These real-life scenarios will serve as examples to disseminate throughout Europe.
Objective
Over the last decade the European Union has faced numerous threats that quickly increased in their magnitude, changing the lives, the habits and the fears of hundreds of millions of citizens. The sources of these threats have been heterogeneous, as well as weapons to impact the population. As Europeans, we know now that we must increase our awareness against these attacks that can strike the places we rely upon the most and destabilize our institutions remotely. Today, the lines between physical and cyber worlds are increasingly blurred. Nearly everything is connected to the Internet and if not, physical intrusion might rub out the barriers. Threats cannot be analysed solely as physical or cyber, and therefore it is critical to develop an integrated approach in order to fight against such combination of threats. Health services are at the same time among the most critical infrastructures and the most vulnerable ones. They are widely relying on information systems to optimize organization and costs, whereas ethics and privacy constraints severely restrict security controls and thus increase vulnerability. The aim of this proposal is to provide solutions that will improve physical and cyber security in a seamless and cost-effective way. It will promote new technologies and novel approaches to enhance threat prevention, threat detection, incident response and mitigation of impacts. The project will also participate in increasing the compliance between security tools and European regulations about ethics and privacy for health services. Finally, project pilots will take place in the hospitals of Marseille, Turin and Amsterdam, involving security and health practitioners, in order to simulate attack scenarios in near-real conditions. These pilot sites will serve as reference examples to disseminate the results and find customers across Europe.
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13354 Marseille Cedex 20
France
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Participants (20)
78990 Elancourt
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17489 Greifswald
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13008 MARSEILLE
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
94415 SAINT MAURICE
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4200-072 Porto
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75141 Paris
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3000 Leuven
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10138 Torino
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10134 Torino
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10023 CHIERI TO
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1105AZ Amsterdam
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2605 BRONDBY
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5612 AB Eindhoven
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5656 AG Eindhoven
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5684 PC Best
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75800 Paris
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10177 Athina
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010158 Bucuresti
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
01-629 Warszawa
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