Increased Cybersecurity 2022 (Horizon-CL3-2022-CS-01)
Europe is in the midst of a digital transformation. Digital technologies are profoundly changing our daily life, our way of working and doing business, and the way people travel, communicate and relate with each other. Digital communication, social media interaction, artificial intelligence, e-government, e-commerce and digital enterprises are steadily transforming our world. They are generating an ever-increasing amount of data, which, if pooled and used, can lead to completely new means and levels of value creation. The more interconnected we are, however, the more we are vulnerable to cyber threats.
Projects are expected to contribute to at least three of the following expected outcomes:
- Improved disruption preparedness and resilience of digital infrastructure in Europe
- Improved capacity building in digital infrastructure security including organisational and operational capabilities
- Robust evidence used in cybersecurity decisions and tools
- Better prediction of cybersecurity threats and related risks
- Improved response capabilities based on effective collaboration and/or coordination with other relevant national or EU bodies in charge of Cybersecurity, including holistic incident reporting and enabling coordinated cyber-incident response.
2. Trustworthy methodologies, tools, and data security "By design" for dynamic testing of potentially vulnerable, insecure hardware and software components (Horizon-CL3-2022-CS-01-02)
Projects are expected to contribute to some of the following expected outcomes:
- Effective access control to system components and management of trustworthy updates
- Modelling of security and privacy properties and frameworks for validating and integration on the testing process
- Integrated process for testing, formal verification, validation and consideration of certification aspects (including potential synergies with the EU cybersecurity certification framework, as established by the EU Cybersecurity Act)
- Tools providing assurance that third-party and open source components are free from vulnerabilities, weaknesses and/or malware
- Data security “by design” e.g. via secure crypto building blocks
- Instrumentation and secured communication with system components for dynamic testing
- Methods and environments for secured coding by-design and by-default and secure hardware and software construction
- Effective audit procedures for cybersecurity testing
- Methods or procedures to make supply chains secure
Projects are expected to contribute to at least three of the following outcomes:
- Availability of applicable tools and procedures for partial and continuous assessment and lean re-certification of ICT products, ICT services and ICT processes;
- Reduction of time and efforts spent for (re-) certifying ICT products, ICT services and ICT processes;
- Improved stakeholder collaboration on cybersecurity certification information, including manufacturers and end users from different Member States;
- Efficient (re-)use of information and evidence relevant to certification and in support of multi-scheme (re-)use;
- Integration of certification on the whole system modelling, verification, testing and verification process
- Increased comparability of assurance statements arising from certification schemes and the standards used therein; avoidance of multi-certification;
- Advancing test and simulation facilities, including incident and threat analysis;
- Increased Digital Twin capabilities for continuous assessment and integration of new solutions.