The CyberSEAS project is a collaborative project improving the cyber security of the European electrical power energy systems (EPES) and the overall resilience of energy supply chains, protecting them from disruptions that exploit the enhanced interactions.
Project coordinator:
ENGINEERING – Ingegneria Informatica SPA, Italy
Project partners:
- Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale Per L’informatica, Italy
- AIRBUS Protect GmbH, Nemčija
- Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V., Germany
- Guardtime OU, Estonia
- Ikerlan S. Coop, Spain
- INFORMATIKA informacijske storitve in inženiring d. d., Slovenia
- Institut za korporativne varnostne študije Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany
- Software Imagination & Vision SRL, Romania
- Software Quality Systems SA, Spain
- STAM SRL, Italy
- Synelixis Lyseis Pliroforikis Automatismou & Tilepikoinonion Anonimi Etairia, Greece
- WINGS ICT Solutions Technologies Pliroforikis Kai Epikoinonion Anonymi Etaireia, Greece
- ZIV Aplicaciones Y Tecnologia SL, Spain
- Comuned Di Berchidda, Italy
- Comune di Benetutti, Italy
- ELES d. o. o. Operater kombiniranega prenosnega in distribucijskega elektroenergetskega omrežja, Slovenia
- PETROL slovenska energetska družba d. d. Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Akademska in raziskovalna mreža Slovenije, Slovenia
- Hrvatski operator prijenosnog sustava d. d., Croatia
- ENERIM OY, Finland
- ELEKTRILEVI OU, Estonia
Third-parties:
- ENEFIT OU, Estonia
- Compania Nationala de Transport al Energiei Electrice Transelectrica SA, Romania
- Centrul Roman al Energiei – CRE, Romania
- TIMELEX, Belgium
- OPERATO DOO, Slovenia
- ELES d. o. o. operater kombiniranega prenosnega in distribucijskega elektroenergetskega omrežja, Slovenia
Project duration:
1 October 2021 – 30 September 2024 (36 months)
Summary:
Advanced solutions to protect energy sector from cyberattacks – The move towards more agile, connected, intelligent and data-driven energy systems, and their interconnection with our day-to-day lives, means that there is a major increase in cyber exposure of energy systems leading to major safety and privacy incidents. The EU-funded CyberSEAS project improves the resilience of energy supply chains by protecting them from disruptions generated by complex attack scenarios. CyberSEAS delivers an open and extendable ecosystem of 30 customisable security solutions providing effective support for key activities, such as risk assessment; interaction with end devices; secure development and deployment; real-time security monitoring; skills improvement and awareness; and certification, governance and cooperation. CyberSEAS solutions will be validated through experimental campaigns consisting of numerous attack scenarios.
Project objectives:
CyberSEAS (Cyber Securing Energy dAta Services) ambition is to improve the resilience of energy supply chains, protecting them from disruptions that exploit the enhanced interactions and extended involvement models of stakeholders and consumers in complex attack scenarios, characterised by the presence of legacy systems and the increasing connectivity of data feeds.
CyberSEAS has 3 strategic objectives:
1) countering the cyber risks related to highest impact attacks against EPES;
2) protecting consumers against personal data breaches and attacks; and
3) increasing the security of the Energy Common Data Space.
All three objectives are equally important, since cyber-criminals are shifting tactics to favour multi-stage attacks in which stealing sensitive data is a precondition for the real attack, and enables them to maximise damage and profits (while traditionally infrastructure cyber-attacks used to be direct attacks to the machinery and typically targeted control systems, not data). Threat actors, especially large ones such as nation states, also carry out complex attacks that leverage supply chain dependencies, and this trend continues to grow, as highlighted in the July 2020 analysis by the Atlantic Council. Likewise, with the transition to scenarios where users are proactively involved, prosumer data is becoming more and more sensitive. To achieve these objectives, CyberSEAS delivers an open and extendable ecosystem of 30 customisable security solutions providing effective support for key activities, and in particular: risk assessment; interaction with end devices; secure development and deployment; real-time security monitoring; skills improvement and awareness; certification, governance and cooperation. CyberSEAS solutions are validated through experimental campaigns consisting of 100+ attack scenarios, tested in 3 labs before moving out to one of 6 piloting infrastructures across 6 European countries. Out of the 30 solutions, 20 will reach TRL8+ and 10 TRL7.
Financing of the project:
| Programme: | H2020-SU-DS-2020, Secure societies – Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens, IA – Innovation action |
| Total eligible costs: | 10,044,756.35 € |
| EU contribution: | 7,999,113.64 € |
| EU co-financing rate: | 100% of the eligible costs of the beneficiaries that are non-profit legal entities and 70% of the eligible costs of the beneficiaries and the affiliated entities that are profit legal entities |