{"id":371,"date":"2019-02-26T11:44:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T11:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/website.prod.unilu.spikeseed.cloud\/fr\/news\/snt-at-heart-of-major-eu-cybersecurity-push\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T11:44:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T11:44:46","slug":"snt-at-heart-of-major-eu-cybersecurity-push","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\/news\/snt-at-heart-of-major-eu-cybersecurity-push\/","title":{"rendered":"SnT at Heart of Major EU Cybersecurity Push"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Commission announces today the launch of four Cybersecurity Competence Networks — a new initiative to accelerate cybersecurity research by drawing together Europe\u2019s leading experts.<\/p>

Participation was highly competitive and the University of Luxembourg is the only organisation in Europe with a presence in three of the four networks, underlining its reputation in the domain.<\/p>

Through its Interdisciplinary Centre for Security Reliability and Trust (SnT)<\/a>, the University of Luxembourg will contribute experts working in resilient systems for the Internet of Things (IoT), biomedical data protection, automated detection and fixing of Android app vulnerabilities, big data, and blockchain based distributed systems.<\/p>\n

\nAn alliance that emphasises diversity and agility<\/h2>\n

Each Cybersecurity Competence Network brings together some 40 partners from across Europe, with a total initial financing of around 65 million Euros. The aim is to scale up existing research for the benefit of Digital Single Market cybersecurity and to arrive at a blueprint for the governance of ongoing large-scale collaboration in the field.<\/p>

The geopolitical implications of cyberattacks and failures are enormous, with EC President Jean-Claude Juncker having described them as \u201cmore dangerous to the stability of democracies and economies than guns and tanks\u201d. Addressing this threat requires experts working together from dozens of fields, and yet the situation in Europe is characterised by fragmented and unaligned research and innovation strategies.<\/p>

These Cybersecurity Competence Networks will address this fragmentation, creating a framework for the development, testing and validation of new solutions on a grand scale. Their emphasis on diversity and agility is expected to give them a competitive edge over large-scale centralised efforts favoured by countries such as China, Russia and the USA.<\/p>

Prof. Paulo Esteves-Ver\u00edssimo, FNR PEARL Chair, is coordinating SnT\u2019s involvement in the initiative, alongside colleagues Dr Jacques Klein\u00a0and Prof. Radu State<\/a>: \u201cSnT is a good example of a research centre with expertise across cybersecurity, from cryptography and blockchain to IoT and software testing. But if we are to secure our critical industries — healthcare, energy, finance, transportation, and public administration — we need actors from across Europe pulling together and challenging one another to reach new heights,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\nAddressing vulnerabilities in the most complex systems<\/h2>\n

Esteves-Ver\u00edssimo\u2019s own efforts focus on extreme threats to critical information infrastructures, such as power grid control and autonomous driving systems. \u201cThe systems we use today are complex, and that creates vulnerabilities. My team investigates innovative algorithms and mechanisms we can apply to make systems tolerate faults and intrusions in an automatic way; our critical information infrastructures need to endure and adapt, regardless of whether the problem is an accidental malfunction or a malicious attack. We call it resilience, and it needs to be built into our digital infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>

\u00ab\u00a0Our presence in three of the four networks is a remarkable result for a young organisation,\u00a0\u00bb says SnT Director Prof. Bj\u00f6rn Ottersten<\/a>, with SnT celebrating its tenth anniversary throughout 2019. \u00ab\u00a0These networks will shape Europe’s approach to cybersecurity research, development and innovation for years to come, and our involvement puts Luxembourg in an exciting position, at the heart of EU cybersecurity efforts.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>

Photos \u00a9 Sciences Relations<\/p>\n

\nNetworks with SnT involvement<\/h2>\n