Newsletter 1 2023
Table of contents:
- Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace and production of missiles
- CENTRE: Cybersecurity effectiveness through threat hunting and prevention ecosystem
- Are you ready for the EU’s most recent regulations?
- NTNU CCIS
- Lithuanian Cybersecurity Ecosystem
- Register now for CYBERSEC FORUM/EXPO 2023
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Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace and production of missiles
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Center for Cyber & Information Security (NTNU CCIS) is an R&D center with 130 researchers (NTNU Gjøvik and NTNU Trondheim) and 1.000 students. We have a partnership arrangement with over 75 companies and authorities, national and international, with close interaction to create win-win development. We, for our part, use the partnership to get input into working life-relevant and time-relevant research, and in the next phase similar education.
A large, active partner, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA) has now asked us for assistance to rapidly grow further.
KDA is experiencing very large increase in orders for their military missiles (air targets, land targets, sea targets). They need a rapid and strong escalation of their production capacity.
KDA has asked us to survey, through our academic contacts and business clusters nationally and internationally, opportunities for:
- Recruitment of highly skilled labor with engineering competence at least at bachelor’s/master’s level.
- Overview of engineering companies that emerge from technical university environments, which may be interested in talks about being acquired. (Many areas of engineering can be interesting, e.g., computer science, hardware, software, design, rocket technology, machine, mechanics, electrical, artificial intelligence, cyber security.)
- Overview of engineering companies that may be interested in collaboration agreements.
Initially, a rough overview is desirable. A following digital meeting will then be appropriate to agree on the way forward.
For further information please contact, Mr Inge Oystein Moen, Senior Advisor NTNU CCIS, inge.moen@ntnu.no / +47 480 26 400
Read more about NTNU CCIS here
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Cybersecurity effectiveness through threat hunting and prevention ecosystem
NECC is currently preparing a joint company-driven co-innovation research project CENTRE, aiming at significant new global business. The project will develop a leading-edge automated adaptive cybersecurity threat hunting platform for proactive hybrid and technical threat detection from different data sources and threat signals, analysis, response and threat information sharing. The platform will include AI-driven validated tools and database. The platform will be validated in several use cases. The project currently includes consortia from 5 countries: Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden. At this moment, there are partial funding opportunities in these countries from public funding agencies.
The project aims at significant advances in the state-of-the-art in threat hunting, intelligence, scalability and adaptiveness of cybersecurity solutions especially in OT (Operational Technology). Moreover, a North European cybersecurity ecosystem building is in focus of the effort. The project will run for 3 years, starting in Q1/2024, but the planning is in active phase now. We are currently seeking critical infrastructure use case providers, cyber and hybrid threat experts, cybersecurity solutions providers and platform and tool integrators to join the project preparations.
If you have any questions regarding this please contact Reijo Savola, University of Jyväskylä, reijo.m.savola@jyu.fi
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Are you ready for the EU’s most recent regulations?
The European Union is boosting out new regulation. The focus has been within new digital segments such as 5G and Artificial Intelligence being complex topics when cyber security is considered.
However, the biggest reform is NIS2 (=Network and Information Security) Directive, which is supported with Cyber Resilience Act. NIS2 Directive was approved last January, and it must be implemented by the member state into the national legislation within 21 months. In the past, EU regulation have been more guiding, than forcing. But the new cybersecurity regulation comes with the defined obligation and sanction. In the previous NIS Directive states had a lot of flexibility when it came to how it was put in to force nationally. NIS2 comes more like a framework including many new verticals to be considered as critical for EU infrastructure.
NIS2 begins with the reporting obligations, a 24-hour deadline for early warning, and 72-hour deadline for notification. The approach for monitoring and security operation becomes vital for the organization which have not been active in the past. Collecting audit trails and log-events becomes necessary, and capabilities to understand the impact of consequences become vital.
We may expect significant increase of investments in the cybersecurity all around EU. It is a big opportunity for the European Cybersecurity industry in the next years to come. NECC plans to organize an NIS2 related event later this year.
NTNU CCIS
NTNU CCIS (Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Center for Cyber & Information Security) has been commissioned on behalf of ENISA (the EU’s agency for cyber security), to conduct ECSC 2023 and Open ECSC 2023. The final between approx. 35-40 national teams (from EU/EFTA countries and invited “friendly” guest countries, with a total of approx. 450 people involved) will take place in Hamar, 1 hr N Oslo Airport, in week 43 2023.
In 2022 these competitions involved around 37,000 young people all over the world aged 14-25. ECSC is for national teams from European countries, plus some selected “friendly” countries such as USA, Canada, Israel, UAE and Serbia. Open ECSC is for individual participants and teams from all over the World.
See more about the 2022 final in Vienna.
The aim of ECSC is to market cyber security as an attractive field to study and work in, seen in the light of the great need that is already here, and will increase with increasing digitalization.
In order to carry out the competition, the competition is dependent on significant sponsor support. Here it will be possible for a sponsor to market themselves nationally (your own country´s national competition process up to selection of the national team, as well as mentoring of this) and internationally (ECSC 2023 and Open ECSC 2023) as an attractive employer and partner in cyber security.
Read more about NTNU CCIS here
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Lithuanian Cybersecurity Business Ecosystem
A number of organisations offering cybersecurity products and services in Lithuania is monitored by Vilius Benetis, member of the NECC board and Director of NRD Cyber Security.
The number of such organisations have reached 103 in March 2023.
You can find more information and details in the article here.
For any questions regarding the map itself, or additions and modifications to the map – please contact Vilius Benetis at LinkedIn.
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Register now for CYBERSEC FORUM/EXPO 2023
Presale tickets are now available for the Cybersec Forum 2023. The Forum will take place on 21 – 22 June 2023 in International Congress Center, Katowice, Poland.What can you experience at the Cybersec Forum;
- +50 Exhibitors
- +220 Speakers
- 5000 m² Expo space
- Opportunities for business networking
- Grand finale of Prestigious Hacking Competition p4 Capture The Flag
- High-Level Panel discussions, Keynotes, Workshops and Side Sessions
- Opportunity to boost your company visibility.
Read more and sign up here.
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