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Ruben Radwan Tognetti
01 January 2018
30 June 2020
Introduction
YAKSHA aims at reinforcing cooperation and building EU-ASEAN partnerships by developing a cybersecurity solution tailored to specific national needs leveraging EU Know-How and local knowledge. The project will enhance cybersecurity readiness levels for its end users, help better prevent cyber-attacks, reduce cyber risks and better govern the whole cybersecurity process. YAKSHA is ideally positioned to help secure the global manufacturing supply chains, given its focus on IoT Security.
Who is the project designed for?
YAKSHA has five main target groups as described below:
How is your project benefitting the end-user?
YAKSHA aims to provide an automated framework for deploying honeypots and correlating the collected information. The goal is to enable end-users, whether they are governments, organisations or companies, to easily set up customised honeypots, which will allow them to understand how their systems are being attacked on the wild, in an autonomous way.
YAKSHA will take into consideration particular needs of ASEAN countries in order to customize the software platform and co-create the ideal ecosystem and business model; and, secondly, promote field activities of engagement and business exploitation, which will allow its sustainability. In addition, YAKSHA will enhance cybersecurity readiness levels for its end-users, provide mechanisms to prevent cyber-attacks, reduce cyber risks and better govern the whole cybersecurity process.
Lastly, YAKSHA will also create YAKSHA Label of Excellence which is a European certification of technology excellence and will serve as a sustainable recognition of the product’s qualities after the project is finished. In the long run, there will be more end-users who prefer SMEs and large businesses who have YAKSHA’s label of excellence due to their increased safety and overall better cybersecurity management.
Please briefly describe the results your project achieved so far
Since YAKSHA's public launch in January 2018, the project has been able to develop its website, Newsletter and have been participating in numerous Cybersecurity and ICT events in Europe and Southeast Asia. In addition, YAKSHA has identified more than 500 Cybersecurity actors both in Europe and Southeast Asia.
These contacts represent important cybersecurity stakeholders from both regions and come from different background and expertise, including government agencies, universities, research institutes, large industries, SMEs, etc. Currently, YAKSHA is developing the ASEAN Cybersecurity Ecosystem Overview that will analyse the EU and ASEAN’s cybersecurity ecosystems status in order to assess the main opportunities for developing new solutions for improving the cybersecurity posture of complex organisations in the ASEAN area.
In addition, the project is developing the data collection methodology and architecture necessary for the YAKSHA pilots. This will include the general assumptions, limitations of the platform and identify the different entities involved, their attributes, behaviour, and interactions. Lastly, YAKSHA has also begin the preparation of YAKSHA Ambassadors´ deployment. YAKSHA Ambassadors´ are voluntary representatives of the YAKSHA project in the ASEAN countries and are active in the field of cybersecurity, software or more largely internet security and defence.
What are the next steps for your project?
The next steps for YAKSHA are the Co-creation workshops to be organised in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Hanoi in September 2018. The workshops aim to identify current trends and possible optimal ecosystem, taking into account the social foundations, regional characteristics and network building.
The project will develop four versions of software in October 2018 (Prototype), February 2019 (Beta Version), August 2019 (Release Candidate) and June 2030 (Final Version) respectively. Finally, YAKSHA will also organise two end-user events, in October 2019 and April 2020. These end-user events will be focused on YAKSHA's software promotion and become part of its exploitation strategy.
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