CyberSecDome

Project background

Infrastructures are becoming increasingly complex. So are attacks. Protecting critical infrastructures today requires a wide range of tools and expertise. The project focuses on the integration of different high-performance tools and information from different sites to provide security experts with better situational awareness, enabling them to counter threats more effectively. The reference scenario for the project is Athens airport. Different attack scenarios are explored using digital twins of the infrastructure. Various algorithms ranging from threat analysis to intrusion detection and pentesting work together to significantly reduce the vulnerability of the infrastructure at an early stage.

Project objective and relevance

CyberSecDome will integrate advanced virtual reality (VR) to extend the capability of security solutions to improve the security, privacy and resilience of digital infrastructure. The project will consider AI-based security solutions to provide better prediction of cyber security threats and associated risks for effective and dynamic incident management and optimise collaborative response between stakeholders within the digital infrastructure ecosystem.

Approach

Cybersecdome is an innovation project. Therefore, the main methodology of the project is to further develop existing tools so that they can be integrated. IMT Atlantique is focusing on new VR-based interfaces for certain cybersecurity tasks. We apply the methodology of prototyping and in-depth evaluation of proofs of concept with the project partners and external partners of the two open calls.

Expected results

The result of the project will be novel tooling and user interfaces that give a new access to cybersecurity operations. We expect to have novel integrated interfaces for Security Operation Center (SOC) analysts that enable them to perform cybersecurity tasks more efficiently. This includes better task execution due to better information presentation, and faster task execution by having better and more-comprehensive access to relevant data.

Role of the school and IMT partner schools

Institute Mines Telecom is a leading institution notably in digital, industrial and digital health transformation. Cyber CNI Chair of ITM conducts research and training in the field of cybersecurity of critical infrastructures including energy networks, industrial processes, water production plants, and financial systems. The chair develops the CyberVR interface which provides a metaverse for collaborative distributed risk analysis, situational awareness, and management of systems.

IMT is the major contributor to the VR-Interface that is central to the project. IMT leads WP4 that focuses on the different toolings, their interaction, and T4.1 around the Virtual Reality interface and T4.2 around explainable AI.

French and foreign academic and industrial participants/partners

The CyberSecDome project is a collaboration between 15 organizations from 6 EU member states (IT, DE, IE, SE, EL, CY) and 2 affiliated countries (UK, CH), comprising 5 industrial partners, 6 scientific partners and 5 SMEs. The project will be coordinated by MAGGIOLI SPA.

Next steps

After specifying the architecture, scenarios, and user stories, the project will develop Proofs-of-Concepty (PoC) next. Also, there will be an open call for external parties to use and evaluate the CyberSecDome platform in their contexts.

  This project has received funding from the Horizon Europe Framework Programme (2021-2027) under the grant agreement No 101120779.