New models of remote delivery, especially in complex ICT infrastructures such as healthcare, increase the potential impact of cyber security breaches to a level that has not been experienced before.
20 partners across 10 European countries joined forces to provide a unified cyber security risk management platform. This will include an automated threat detection module, identifying possible threats and attacks; it will also promote the situational security awareness amongst its users as a priority through a powerful training module.
This is the main goal of the SECANT project (101019645-SECurity And privacy protectioN in Internet of Things devices), funded by the European Commission under the call H2020-SU-DS-2020.
The implementation of platforms permitting people to work from home has lead to a broadened attack surface. Sensitive information can be disclosed, affecting the integrity or correctness of the transmitted data, or even stop processes and services from taking place.
In this context, the SECANT platform will implement a collaborative threat intelligence collection, analysis and sharing, and an innovative risk analysis specifically designed for interconnected nodes of an industrial ecosystem. Also, the platform will have cutting-edge trust and accountability mechanisms for data protection and will provide security awareness training for more informed security choices.
SIMAVI will develop two modules of the SECANT Platform that will allow the data gathering and the safe connection with Healthcare ICT ecosystems.
SIMAVI will lead the integration of the SECANT platform and modules in a virtualised platform as-a-service type of solution. The platform will be released in two iterations – an initial prototype and a second one based on the results of testing and validation in the operational environments of the demonstration partners.
Functional and end-to-end tests of the integration of the SECANT modules will be provided in a controlled environment before actual deployment at pilots.
The first prototype of SECANT platform will be further tested and validated in four use cases, in an operational environment. Improvements will be embedded in the second version of the platform.
The project started in September 2021. At the end of the project, in August 2024, the final result will be an operational cyber security risk management platform for connected ICT ecosystems, addressing cyber security possible threats, privacy, data protection and accountability needs, in a dynamic and flexible way.
SECANT will contribute decisively towards improving the readiness and resilience of the organizations against the crippling modern cyber-threats, increasing the privacy, data protection and accountability across the entire interconnected ICT ecosystem, and reducing the costs for security training in the European market.
