The partners of CICERO, which has an investment of 3.5 million euros and is led by Gradiant and integrated by CEIT, Fidesol, i2CAT and ITCL Technology Center, meet today in Seville to start working on R&D&I focused on cybersecurity and attract research talent
The project's objectives include fostering collaboration and synergies between technology centers to maximize innovation and socioeconomic impact and to promote technology transfer through different areas of research
CICERO, the only Cervera cybersecurity network with an investment of 3.5 million euros, starts today, May 28, with the launch meeting of this national alliance, led by Gradiant, and driven to orient research towards the needs of companies.
In a meeting that took place this morning at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática de Sevilla, headquarters of JNIC 2024, the partners of CICERO, Gradiant, CEIT, Fidesol, i2CAT and ITCL Centro Tecnológico, have established the basis to start working on R&D&I in cybersecurity, oriented to transfer, complemented with the generation and attraction of research talent in cybersecurity.
The project, which will run until 2025, aims to establish the grouping of technology centers as a benchmark in research and development in cybersecurity technologies, foster collaboration and synergies to maximize innovation and socioeconomic impact, promote effective technology transfer through different areas of research, establish mechanisms to protect the intellectual property generated and develop specialized training programs focused on Cervera technology to prepare researchers and technicians.
CICERO partners will enhance technology transfer through the following research areas:
Identification challenges: the main objective is to help organizations to understand the threats and vulnerabilities to which they are exposed and to improve their risk management with this information. Key here are technologies that enable cyberintelligence to be obtained, such as the honeypotsThe company has also developed new technologies for the identification of vulnerabilities, and risk analysis methodologies.
Protection challenges: early detection of cybersecurity events for the defense of organizations' information systems. Due to the increasing digitalization of activities and processes in companies, the main challenge is to develop technologies that allow the detection of suspicious events in the increasingly complex systems and data networks. Technologies based on the massive processing of information, its correlation and statistical analysis are key to guarantee the adequate detection of events.
Challenges in detection: the main objective is to help organizations to improve the robustness of their information systems and data networks against cyber-attacks. In this function, we emphasize technologies to improve security in network protocols and the implementation of these protocols, which improve security in cyber-physical systems and access control. It is also essential to guarantee protection in new data network paradigms, such as the virtualization of network functions.
Challenges in response and recovery: in the event of a cybersecurity incident, a rapid, coordinated and informed response is essential to ensure resilience, i.e. that the organization's information systems and data networks recover to a known, expected and secure state. This requires research into orchestration technologies, rapid reconfiguration of data networks using software-defined networks to isolate and contain compromised systems, and forensic analysis to determine the impact of the cybersecurity incident.
CICERO, recognized as a CERVERA Network of Excellence, is funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation through the Center for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), under the General State Budget 2023 and the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.