Cyberwatching Technology Radar: visualising the state of play across the EU cybersecurity research landscape

Over the past years, a large number of substantial investments have been made by both national governments and the European Commission to support coordinated programmes of research and innovation projects within the broad domain of cybersecurity and privacy. Since some of these programmes are now completed and as the European Commission has transitioned from Framework 7 to Horizon 2020, what’s the impact that these programmes have had, and more specifically, what’s the status of each funded project in respect to its maturity, results and outputs? Are the results of these projects ready to be adopted and used by external stakeholders such as European SMEs and organisations?

The Cyberwatching.eu’s European Project Radar try to answer all of this by using a number of underpinning information sources to visualise the state of the art of these projects as a means to maintain and oversee the larger European Cybersecurity research landscape.

Built upon the open-source Technology Radar was developed by ThoughtWorks. The European Project Radar allows making swift yet statistically sound statements on the state of the art of the European cybersecurity and privacy research landscape.

Using cool visualisation software, the European Project Radar provides a birdseye view of the complete collection of EU-funded projects in the cybersecurity space. The projects are grouped by research themes, colour-coded to show their position in the project lifecycle and assessed using Market and Technology Readiness Levels methodology.

This allows the user to identify clusters or projects working in the same sub-domain, with similar technology readiness or similar market readiness and establish mutually beneficial relationships among projects that can identify common themes and challenges for future activities.