Consortium addresses the development of a platform for real-time acquisition of situational cyber awareness in military operations
Indra, one of the leading global technology and consulting companies, leads Europe's largest cyber defense project, which aims to develop a national and European platform for real-time acquisition of situational cyber awareness in military operations, deployment of capabilities to visualize, detect and respond to cyber threats, and support mission plan decision making.
This is the ECYSAP (European Platform for Situational Cyber Awareness) project whose consortium is made up of partners from four countries (Spain, France, Italy and Estonia), which brings together leading organizations in the European cyber defense industry, academia and SMEs representative of the sector.
ECYSAP is funded by the European Defense Industrial Development Program (EDIDP) and is supported by the European Commission and the European Defense Agency (EDA) through the Defense Ministries of the participating states.
The project aims to strengthen European capabilities in the defense of cyberspace, which is a domain of operations recognized by NATO in recent years, as well as at sea, in the air, on land and in space.
The initiative is the convergence point of recent advances in cyber defense technologies, with emerging areas of knowledge and the use of innovative integrated research prototypes to develop a cyber defense platform with automatic response capability.
The Indra-led consortium will design and implement analytical tools to identify and assess the risks associated with the technology and estimate its spread and possible impact on mission objectives.
The platform incorporates threat response capabilities based on the correct identification, selection, planning and deployment of actions, both at a technological and mission level, also projecting their behavior in different time horizons.
Given its orientation towards decision support, ECYSAP incorporates advanced methods for exchanging information on cyber threats between various stakeholders, strengthening individual and collective response capacities through effective implementation of courses of action in the plan of mission. Security as a design principle makes the platform inherently robust backed by resilient communications that enhance its self-protection capabilities as well as the implementation of various auditable controls.
Validation activities will be carried out through use cases endorsed by member states and conducted in real operating environments where cyber situational awareness capabilities are demonstrated in the fulfillment of missions. ECYSAP is thus integrated into the lines of technological development in defense promoted by Indra and which will be reinforced through its collaboration with other strategic command and control programs, as well as through participation in PESCO and EDIDP public notices, among others.
