ACTING

The 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, will execute 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, 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.

ACTING will also 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.

ΙΤΙ-CERTH has a critical role as the scientific manager of the ACTING project and by leading a WP for the State of Knowledge of all the technologies that will be researched and developed during the project. ITI-CERTH is also leading the development of the Situational Awareness and Scoring prototype. Finally, it will contribute in the identification and elicitation of the requirements and the design of multiple technologies developed under the ACTING project.

Consortium

INSTITUT PO OTBRANA, Bulgaria
TELELINK BUSINESS SERVICES EAD, Bulgaria
RHEA SYSTEM BV, Netherlands
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS, Greece
TELEFONICA MOVILES ESPANA SA, Spain
NAVAL GROUP BELGIUM, France
ENQUIRYA BV, Netherlands
VISIONSPACE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH, Germany
Managing & Innovation Business Partners, Spain
PRAVO I INTERNET FOUNDATION, Bulgaria
UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS, Cyprus
EIGHT BELLS LTD, Cyprus
ECOLE ROYALE MILITAIRE – KONINKLIJKE MILITAIRE SCHOOL, Belgium
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND MAYNOOTH, Ireland
SIDROCO HOLDINGS LIMITED, Cyprus
ZANASI ALESSANDRO SRL, Italy
UNIVERSITAT WIEN, Austria
FONDATSIYA EVROPREYSKI SOFTUEREN INSTITUT – TSENTAR IZTOCHNA EVROPA, Bulgaria
WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IKE, Greece
SPACE HELLAS ANONYMI ETAIREIA SYSTIMATA KAI YPIRESIES TILEPIKOINONIONPLIROFORIKIS ASFALEIAS – IDIOTIKI EPICHEIRISI PAROCHIS YPERISION ASFA, Greece
INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS, Greece
Vision Space, Unipessoal Lda, Portugal
STAM SRL, Italy
DEFENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, France
GMVIS SKYSOFT SA, Portugal
SAFETECH, Romania
National Laboratory of Computer Virology, Bulgaria
EXERCITO PORTUGUES (CINAMIL), Portugal