Advanced European platform and network of Cybersecurity training and exercises centres

ACTING project delivers an organized and coordinated approach to proactively improve efficiency of cyber defence training and exercises in the European Union, through effective and efficient multi-sector collaboration. The 28 Partners, from 13 MSs, supported by 6 MODs, will execute on a 48-month work plan to develop, model and demonstrate a network of advanced interconnected (federated) domain oriented cyber ranges for training and exercises, incorporating sophisticated methods and techniques for simulation of users, analysis of the performance of the cyber operators, and scoring cyber security situational awareness, supported by leading-edge scenario development language. The ACTING project integrates study, design, prototyping, and testing activities in the domain of cyber security. In order to justify the capabilities of the proposed approach and resulting tools and platform, based on the Main High-level requirements and the 2018 CDP Priorities, 3 (three) representative defence oriented use cases were developed. Use cases include i-Combined cyber attacks against joint HQ, Land and Navy CIS systems; ii-Space-Maritime (Transportation/Military) Sectors; iii-Cascading effect for cyber-attack in civilian sector. In addition, the ACTING will provide the coordination between other EU activities like EU CAIH PESCO project, EDA’s CD TEXP, CySAP, EDIDP ECYSAP and H2020 ECHO projects. Last, but not least, the ACTING will provide a framework, common standards and interfaces to interconnect existing cyber ranges, to develop technical and scoring elements of cyber defence scenarios taking as a source already developed use cases and scenarios from various external sources and projects (from Academia, Industry and EU Funded Projects) and build on top of this user performance scoring and common situational awareness system covering federated cyber ranges. Тo achieve good synchronization between the ACTING project and MODs requirements, 3 validation workshops will be organized.

The MARSEUS project is financed by the European Commission through the European Defence Fund under grant 101103208.