Reports
D4.1 Communication & Stakeholders Engagement plan
This Communication and Stakeholder Engagement Plan is the first document setting out specific actions and measures that will ensure community building and practical assets key to sustaining a multi-service marketplace beyond the project’s funding lifecycle.
The Plan outlines cyberwatching.eu stakeholder groups and targeted engagement activities with a roadmap for the first 18 months of cyberwatching.eu, as foundational for future actions in two further documents (D4.3 in M18 and D4.9 in M48). The Plan shows how activities will be monitored through pre-defined KPIs. It also provides a concise report on current achievements, upcoming synergies and knowledge sharing, as well as engagement roadmaps for each stakeholder group targeted.
D4.1 Communication & Stakeholders Engagement Plan.pdf
D3.8 From Research to Standards in Cybersecurity
Cyberwatching.eu has been on the forefront of addressing the key issue of standards (and that issue is trust), via the in-project development of the Light Cybersecurity Label, which is a key result of this project that will “live on” well beyond the lifetime of cyberwatching.eu. Thus, this is proof that the European Commission Horizon 2020 funding has been well spent in the pursuit of addressing the needs of the cybersecurity ecosystem and for European citizens and the broader society to have “trustworthy” systems and solutions that enable SMEs and even any organisation to bring key trusted innovations to the European and global markets. Furthermore, the Light Cybersecurity Label can be achieved within limited budgets and even used by those with limited resources (human and other) with a genuine opportunity for SMEs to sell their “trusted” solutions. This is truly part of the long-lasting legacy of the cyberwatching.eu project.
In addition to describing and explaining in detail the Light Cybersecurity Label, this deliverable also aims to provide a snapshot of the ongoing innovations and efforts to address certification and related standards within Europe, while recognizing at the same time that the situation is not static, but rather constantly evolving. The deliverable also illustrates the EC projects, ECSO efforts, ENISA efforts and other aspects and work in the research and standards area so that a clear picture can emerge for the readers of this document. At the same time, it must be noted that this is only a “snapshot” in time, such that the evolution will continue beyond this current timeframe. Efforts of organisations such as Working Group 1 of the European Cyber Security Organisation (chaired by the CEO of CONCEPTIVITY) will be contributing even further to the development of the cybersecurity certification framework well beyond the lifetime of the cyberwatching.eu project.
It is in this context that this deliverable aims to briefly summarise what has occurred up to this moment, what is currently happening and what could be possible in the future.
D3.8_Cybersercurity-Research-to-Standards-in-Cybersecurity_v1.0_Final.pdf
D3.7 EU White Paper around legal compliance and policy statements including recommendations
The work in this deliverable is related to Objective 3 of cyberwatching.eu, which is to “play a supporting role in the policy, regulatory standards & legal discussions that contribute to shaping up the global cybersecurity & privacy landscape.” This document is the White paper around legal compliance & policy statements including recommendations (M51), which is the final version of a preliminary version D3.4 (M26) relating to the Task 3.4 on Legal Compliance in cybersecurity & privacy.
It combines the legislation, the best practices available, the guidelines or opinions of the European Data Protection Supervisor (“EDPS”), the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”, former Article 29 Working Party), the High Level Expert Group of Artificial Intelligence (“HLEG AI”), as well as of competent Supervisory Authorities (“SAs”) of EU Member States, and the practical considerations of European Projects (“EU Projects”), and Small and Medium Enterprises (“SMEs”) participating at the various stakeholders’ events throughout the duration of the Cyberwatching.eu project.
The document offers a robust package of recommendations facing both the policy makers and the Supervisory Authorities, to address stakeholders’ needs. Clear explanations of the fundamental obligations included in the EU Regulation 2016/679, known as “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR”, can best be provided by the experts that practice and apply the GDPR on a day-to-day basis, making the cyberwatching.eu partners the most appropriate resource of creating this impact. The ultimate aim of merging the legal knowledge and practical observation of reality was to develop online tools that are meant to complement one another, resulting in self-assessment tools that provide handy self-explanatory legal and practical recommendations for all stakeholders, including SMEs.
D3.7_White_Paper_around_legal_compliance_and_policy_statements_including_recommendations_v1.0_Final.pdf
D3.6 Report on Concertation Activities
The document also provides an overview of how the Concertation Meetings became an essential platform and springboard for all WPs in the project and became an essential part of the delivery of project assets. It also provides a full summary of the final Concertation meeting which took place in June-July 2021.
D3.6_Report-on-Concertation-Activities_v1.0_Final.pdf
D3.5 Risk and recommendations on cybersecurity services
This deliverable presents the results of the analysis of the risk and recommendations on cybersecurity services from different angles, which include an update on the European Union’s privacy, data protection and cybersecurity compliance framework, the challenges of emerging technologies, in particular, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT), the challenges of privacy during Covid from a user perspective and the findings of the third concertation event thereby resulting in a set of key recommendations covering the cybersecurity services landscape, with a particular focus on privacy and healthcare.
The Third Concertation event planned for the Cyberwatching.eu project was replaced by a set of four webinars. This replacement was required and agreed due to the challenges in having a further physical concertation event – it was felt that a series of webinars would have a more significant impact given the specific topics that were selected and relevant to the current environment. Thus, although clearly the COVID crisis actually affected the concertation event negatively in that a physical event could not take place, it also presented a unique opportunity to discuss and solicit input concerning the perceptions of the relevant stakeholders with respect to privacy and the change of work requirements and way of working during this unprecedented crisis period, as well as to address the challenges encountered during Covid in the healthcare system.
In this deliverable, the results of a COVID survey which was carried out during several months is quite interesting having been undertaken as an additional task outside of the normal expected planning of the Cyberwatching.eu project. The conclusions and recommendations are thus also reflective of the input and feedback from the relevant stakeholders giving even more credence to our approach. As such, this deliverable actually goes above and beyond the initial intentions and objectives, despite the fact that the COVID crisis significantly hindered our ability to accomplish this. We will continue to pursue further the feedback from the stakeholder community, especially within the planned roadmap deliverable due at the end of the Cyberwatching.eu project. We also note that this deliverable represents the current snapshot and analysis, which presents as well a moving target given the risk aspects concerned.
D3.5_Risk_and_Recommendations_on_Cybersecurity_Services_v1.0_Final.pdf
D3.4 EU Cybersecurity legal and policy aspects: preliminary recommendations and road ahead
This Deliverable offers recommendations to policy-makers with regards to the interaction between the General Data Protection Regulation and the Directive on security of network and information systems and the challenges brought about by the deployment of new technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Blockchain. Moreover, it collects proposals from EU projects on areas of research and policy solutions within the scope the two main strategic elements which will shape the EU landscape in cybersecurity and privacy: Horizon Europe and Digital Europe Programme. Finally, the Deliverable provides also, legal recommendations on privacy and cybersecurity to the two stakeholders of cyberwatching.eu.
D3.4 EU Cybersecurity legal and policy aspects_preliminary recommendations and road ahead.pdf
D3.3 White Paper on cybersecurity standard gap analysis
The focus of this deliverable is to address the issue, with a white paper, of identifying the gaps in cybersecurity standards (and hence also certification). This is done using the methodology of focussed desk research first and foremost in order to gather together and to summarize all of the key efforts that have gone before. We thereafter survey the cybersecurity research, industry, public sector and user communities in order to get inputs into identifying the perceived gaps.
D3.3 White Paper on Cybersecurity Standard Gap Analysis.pdf
D3.2 European cybersecurity and privacy Research & Innovation Ecosystem
This document presents a view of the European cyber security and privacy research and innovation ecosystem with a view of getting input and feedback via a survey and the concertation meeting held on 26 April 2018 in Brussels.
A key component of developing this deliverable was to target research projects in the field of cyber security in the current cyber security framework. To this aim, a survey was sent out to projects in cyber security in the EU. All the projects were also invited to the First Concertation Meeting, which was held on 26 April 2018 in Brussels. Feedback from that first Concertation meeting is included in this deliverable.
D3.2_European cybersecurity and privacy Research & Innovation Ecosystem.pdf
D3.1 Concertation Activities Plan
The Concertation meeting activities are an integral part of Work package 3 and play a key and central role in the project in terms of promoting best practices to projects on topics of legal, standards and policy. The concertation effort works hand in hand with task 3.2 entitled Policy tracking and evolution as the projects or national initiatives on cybersecurity and privacy are mapped and are invited to the concertation meetings for their visibility and to showcase any developments in this domain.
In addition, the Concertation is a key point for supporting WP2: task 2.1 and 2.2 in validating the results of mapping and forming the clusters of CS&P projects; task 2.3 engagement between projects and European CS&P. In addition, the Concertation meetings are also a key contributor to WP4 efforts to disseminate results of projects to cyberwatching.eu stakeholders.
The event will also be important in promoting WP5 results such as the benefits of the cyberwatching.eu marketplace.
D3.1 Concertationn Activities Plan.pdf
D2.8 Recommendations report on R&I needs
This deliverable presents the results of the analysis of the Cybersecurity and Privacy European research projects and their results, including the characterisation of the projects comprised in the Project Radar, the analysis of the Market and Technology Readiness Levels (MTRL) of those projects that interacted with Cyberwatching.eu by providing their MTRL self-assessment score and the analysis of the matrix of the identified technologies and services. The objective of this quantitative and qualitative analysis is to facilitate the connection between funded projects and future funding actions, so that organisations can take advantage of previous results to build new products and services, thus optimizing European funds invested in research.
D2.8_Recommendations_report_on_RI_needs_vFinal.pdf
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