CYBERUNITY

The CYBERUNITY project aims to build an interoperable community of Cyber Ranges in Europe, initially by bringing together the cyber ranges owned and operated by the partners in the consortium, while “opening” the cyber range interoperability specifications for building and expanding a thriving community of cybersecurity experts, researchers and professionals. CYBERUNITY contributes to making Europe a world leader by developing open interoperability specifications and providing the first interoperable cyber range infrastructure. Building upon these, and upon additional components and interfaces to be developed and integrated within the project, the concept of the “Cyber-Range-as-a-Service” (CRaaS) will be realised. Additionally, the first overarching Knowledge Repository for cyber ranges will be developed. CYBERUNITY will deploy a secure framework that enables cross-organisation and cross-border trustworthy and privacy-compliant integrated cyber range services, whose capabilities will be demonstrated by means of several cross-border scenarios involving systems in critical sectors. During the lifecycle of the project, it is estimated that about 2,000 cyber defenders from all regions of Europe, including those less equipped with a unified cyber range facility, will benefit from CYBERUNITY.

The project addresses the second objective of the DIGITAL-ECCC-2022-CYBER-03-CYBER-RESILIENCE topic of the Call, which targets the creation, interconnection and strengthening of cybersecurity ranges at European, national and regional level, as well as within and across critical infrastructures, in view of sharing knowledge and cybersecurity threat intelligence between stakeholders in the Member States, better monitoring cybersecurity threats, and responding jointly to cyber-attacks. CYBERUNITY will offer European cyber defenders access to state-of-the-art instrumentation, protocols and methods, including forensic analysis, setting the base of a common distributed and standardised cyber range facility.

ITI-CERTH leads the WP6 (Dissemination, Communication, and Exploitation) of CYBERUNITY and is actively engaged in the research, development and integration activities of the project. ITI’s contributions cover the elicitation of technical, legal and policy requirements, the design of the cyber range architecture, the development of the Knowledge Repository and a Cyber Ranges AI Assistant, the implementation of the interoperability framework and APIs, the participation in integration and plugtest activities, as well as the coordination of all dissemination, communication and exploitation activities, ensuring that CYBERUNITY results reach academic, industrial and institutional stakeholders as well as the wider public.

Consortium

Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet (NTNU), Norway (Coordinator)
Cyprus Research and Academic Network (KEAD), Cyprus
AC Goldman Solutions & Services GSS Ltd (GOLDMAN), Cyprus
Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU), Greece
University of Piraeus Research Center (UPRC), Greece
SPHYNX Hellas Anonymi Etaireia (SPHYNX HELLAS), Greece
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (AIT), Austria
Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), Greece
Centre for Research and Technology – Hellas (CERTH), Greece
Sihtasutus CR14 (CR14), Estonia