"The GUARD concept goes beyond traditional security paradigms, still largely based on protecting a single infrastructure, by targeting trust and security mechanisms for end-to-end digital services and business chains". - Matteo Repetto - Guard's technical coordinator

COVID-19 has changed the way the world operates, the way we communicate, the mode of doing business and the functioning of governments resulting in an increased reliance over digital technologies and remote working[1]. One effect of this massive digital adoption was an increase in cyberattacks, which demonstrates the urgency and the need of a secure and reliable cyberspace. We, as member of the CONCORDIA project, have analyzed how COVID-19 is impacting the current cyberdomains studied in the project, from device/IoT to user, via network, system, data, and application domains.

M-Sec was launched in 2018. In its last year, the project is currently implementing pilots to test, validate and showcase the impact of the M-Sec solution. Learn more about M-Sec’s Use Case 3: “Secure and trustworthy mobile sensing platform”, to better understand how this Use Case is being implemented in the Japanese city of Fujisawa, its main achievements and challenges, and how the M-Sec solution has been a decisive factor in the improvement of people’s lives in that context.

This is the first issue of the quarterly PECS Newsletter in 2021. The main objectives of this Newsletter are providing the actual status on Cybersecurity competence network, funding opportunities, partnership, networking opportunities, events, and the last news and updates!

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