CS-AWARE-NEXT
Dynamic Cybersecurity Management for Organisations and Local/Regional Networks Based on Awareness and Collaboration
Project overview
CS-AWARE-NEXT aims to strengthen dynamic cybersecurity management in organisations and local/regional networks by promoting shared awareness, collaboration and the integration of cyber threat intelligence into operational security management.
Objectives
CS-AWARE-NEXT aims to provide advanced cybersecurity management capabilities to organisations and local/regional networks operating in a rapidly evolving threat landscape and subject to increasingly demanding European regulatory requirements, including the Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive.
The project promotes a dynamic and collaborative approach to cybersecurity, based on information sharing and shared awareness of risks and potential vulnerabilities affecting organisations and the networks they belong to.
In particular, the project addresses six priority areas:
- Organisational policies: improve support for organisational security policies to address the dynamic nature of cyber threats.
- Cooperation and collaboration: significantly strengthen collaboration within organisations and with external stakeholders, including local and regional supply chains.
- Cyber threat intelligence: improve the integration of threat intelligence into operational cybersecurity management through innovative artificial intelligence approaches and techniques.
- Business continuity: enhance disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities and integrate them into operational cybersecurity management.
- Information sharing: strengthen evidence collection and information sharing with relevant stakeholders within the European multi-level cybersecurity framework.
- Assessment and benchmarking: enable organisations to assess their security posture in comparison with other relevant actors through benchmarking and profiling activities.
Activities and Technologies
CS-AWARE-NEXT builds on the cybersecurity awareness, information-sharing and system self-healing capabilities of the CS-AWARE platform, developed under the previous Horizon 2020 project of the same name.
The project develops and integrates advanced functionalities to make cybersecurity risk and incident management more effective and efficient.
Its main technological areas include:
- Dynamic cybersecurity policy management.
- Cyber threat information sharing and correlation.
- Integration of artificial intelligence techniques for threat intelligence.
- Cooperation among organisations and supply-chain stakeholders.
- Support for business continuity and incident recovery.
- Evidence collection and information sharing for cybersecurity management.
Collaboration
The project involves 21 organisations from 8 European countries and is coordinated by the University of Oulu (Finland).
The collaboration among partners supports the development of a shared approach to cybersecurity management, encouraging information exchange and coordination between organisations and local/regional networks.
Expected Results
CS-AWARE-NEXT aims to improve organisations’ ability to prevent, detect and manage cybersecurity incidents through more dynamic and collaborative tools and processes.
The expected results include:
- Increased shared awareness of cybersecurity threats.
- Better integration of threat intelligence into operational management.
- Stronger cooperation among organisations and external stakeholders.
- Improved incident response and business continuity capabilities.
- Greater interoperability in information sharing.
- Benchmarking and profiling tools to assess organisational security posture.
Project Information
- Programme: Horizon Europe.
- Coordinator: University of Oulu, Finland.
- Consortium: 21 organisations from 8 European countries.
- ISISLab role: Partner.
- Total project funding: €4,993,275.
- Period: September 2022 – 2025.
Partners
- 21 organisations from 8 European countries