D2.1 Cybersecurity and Privacy ecosystem model report - A Taxonomy of Cybersecurity and Privacy to assess the coverage of developed landscape by EC and nationally funded projects

One of the objectives of the Cyberwatching.eu project is to support projects in the cybersecurity domain in classifying and clustering themselves and others into meaningful groups of common topics and concerns to generate synergies and collaboration.

The process by which this is achieved involves a two-tier taxonomy of cybersecurity topics, against which European projects, both national and international, are first mapped against the first tier of domains of cybersecurity. Since many projects concern themselves with not only one domain, the three domains in the first tier are ranked accordance to the level of concern in the mapped project: High, medium, low, or not  applicable.

As a consequence, some projects are entirely out of scope, as the only concern themselves with using cybersecurity procedures or technology instead of addressing any of them as a concern of its own right.