The EMERALD action has established the European Cluster for Cybersecurity Certification, which is slated for its kick-off gathering in April during the International Conference of Cloud Computing and Service Science (CLOSER conference) to enhance capabilities in cybersecurity within Europe.
The creation of the Cluster for Cybersecurity Certification was foreseen as a way to operate a real collaboration between projects approved under the same topic as EMERALD (i.e., HORIZON-CL3-2022-CS-01-04 Development and validation of processes and tools used for agile certification of ICT products, ICT services and ICT processes) such as COBALT and CERTIFAI.
The Cluster was envisioned with the ultimate goal of creating a greater impact and awareness of the activities carried out. Therefore, other related projects will be invited to the Cluster to increase the potential and impact for joint events and joint publications covering different points of view.
The Cluster will provide a forum for discussion and collaboration for research and innovation initiatives that address the challenges and issues of Next Generation Cybersecurity Certification from various perspectives and approaches. Its main objective is to foster collaboration among existing research initiatives, creating a critical mass of projects to share experiences, collaborate on approaches in order to elaborate a broad EU perspective, and discuss challenges for adoption and future research.
Collaboration can be established in two ways:
Technical:
- Technical collaboration between projects.
- Collaboration on scientific papers.
- Sharing/Developing best practices for approaching technical collaboration with relevant communities, i.e. open-source communities, standardization bodies, etc.
- Development of roadmaps for future research.
Dissemination and Exploitation:
- Organisation of joint workshops focusing on both academia and industry.
- Supporting individual projects through the organisation of project innovation management events.
- Organisation of joint exploitation workshops to bring together researchers, technology transfer experts, legal experts, industrial experts and external venture capital experts and obtain recommendations for projects.
- Whitepapers on specific topics.
Currently, six projects are involved in the Cluster:
- https://www.emerald-he.eu
- https://horizon-cobalt.eu/
- https://certifai.info/
- http://dossproject.eu/
- https://telemetry-project.eu/
- https://certify-project.eu/
More information: https://cybersecuritycertcluster.eu/