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Training the European workforce of tomorrow: cyber ranges in practice

Context - A fast evolving cyber threat landscape

Over the past years, malicious cyber activity has evolved and substantially increased with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and now the Ukraine crisis. Cyber criminals are taking advantage of this situation, constantly boosting their attacks to exploit vulnerabilities and flaws to acquire sensitive information, infiltrate private networks to steal data, or disrupt critical infrastructures.  

#8 CONCORDIA Stakeholders’ Newsletter

Welcome back to the CONCORDIA newsletter! Many events are face-to-face, and the start-up community’s news is more than positive. Checkout our cybersecurity training and education initiatives on the first page of the CONCORDIA news.

THIS ISSUE:

PUZZLE Validation Contracts CALL of €10.000 is LAUNCHED!

PUZZLE Validation Contracts Call of €10.000 for 10 highly ranked SMEs&MEs and 5 highly ranked Cybersecurity Vendors is Open Now!  

Who is the PUZZLE call for?

Would you like to be certified as a cybersecurity consultant?

The C3 by CONCORDIA Certification and the preparatory Course are back in 2022!

What do we have for you?

This year we will open again the C3 by CONCORDIA Certification exams and run the preparatory course. And we will, again, offer this for free! But we have a limited number of places available.

The Course “Becoming a Cybersecurity Consultant” (support in preparing for taking the C3 by CONCORDIA Certification exam) has the following structure:

The European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) is inviting applications to fill up the position of Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor, starting 1 April 2022.

Cyber fortification in healthcare against hybrid threats

31/03/2022

It has long been predicted that wars would become hybrid, fought in multiple fronts at the same time, mixing conventional and irregular warfare with subversion, disinformation, and cyber-warfare. Following Russia’s invasion, Ukraine is facing constant cyber-attacks against its critical infrastructure. Viktor Zhora, deputy chairman of the State Service of Special Communications of Ukraine stated in early March 2022:

GEIGER: the practical solution for SME cybersecurity

Digital transformation is making cybersecurity increasingly important. And this is a particularly complicated matter for smaller businesses. GEIGER, an innovation project funded by the EU, aims to provide a solution to this problem. A pilot and training programme targeted at accountants in the Netherlands is being implemented by the SRA, association of accountancy firms. What does GEIGER involve and what does it aim to accomplish? Below is an introduction.

Legal aspects and Big Picture

In CONCORDIA we use a holistic approach to build a comprehensive European cybersecurity ecosystem. Therefore we also focus on the legal aspects of cybersecurity

In those days we regularly publish content on this topic on our channels in order to promote this are of our work. 
The content was created in cooperation with ARTHUR'S LEGAL, the next-level law firm that leads legal activities in the CONCORDIA project.

Look back at the CONCORDIA Open Door 2021

In its third edition, Concordia Open Door (COD) continued the series of annual meetups for the European heterogenous cybersecurity community.

If you’ve never heard about it, it’s time to be aware that CONCORDIA is organizing these events to connect all the cybersecurity stakeholders in Europe to create valuable exchanges between academia, industry, public bodies, and policymakers. You can learn about the first two editions here:

New releases of KYPO CRP significantly improve user experience and fix Log4Shell

  • A brand-new release 21.12 of the KYPO Cyber Range Platform brings redesigned sandbox topology! The platform is now prettier, and the interaction is simplified.
  • Users can take advantage of the copy-and-paste feature between the user host and sandbox machines and there is much more in the new release.

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On the event of the adoption of the draft regulation laying down measures for a high common level of cybersecurity at the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union, the AI4HealthSec project kicked off a process to provide its opinion.