SYNAPSE is a European project that brings together 14 entities from different countries (Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany, Cyprus, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland) to provide an integrated cybersecurity risk management and resilience platform. This platform, attractive for many critical infrastructures, must integrate all those mechanisms that allow addressing the three essential pillars of SYNAPSE: Situational awareness (Pillar-I), incident response (Pillar-II) and preparedness (Pillar-III). To achieve this, multiple technologies, techniques, tools and methodologies are widely considered to drive and foster these 3 pillars, and in some way promote dynamic risk management, proactive detection, monitoring and tracking of attacks, and response against potential threats, offering guarantees of business continuity at all times.
The proposed platform will encompass:
Incident Response through process automation and orchestration mechanisms, also covering organisational/business aspects (e.g., business continuity processes)
AI-enhanced Situational Awareness, encompassing extraction & analytics of actionable and pertinent Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), along with attack early warning & threat hunting systems
Preparedness through cybersecurity, privacy & business continuity training, covering different training delivery means, allowing it to tailor the delivery method to the content
Technical & economic risk management, integrating outputs of the above points and supporting risk-benefit analyses (including what-if scenarios) to inform decision-making and enable risk transfer schemes with Smart Contract-enabled cybersecurity insurance
Continuous feedback between the above points, along with standards-based sharing, alerting & reporting (intra- & inter- Member State), based on outputs, thus enabling the establishment of shared situational awareness, coordinated response and joint preparedness.
situational awareness
incident response
preparedness capabilities
This project has received funding from Horizon Europe, under Grant Agreement No 101120853.