Data Breach: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

22nd Feb 2021

Data Breach: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

On November 26, 2020, the 41st edition of the monthly Cybersecurity Breakfast organized by SECURITYMADEIN.LU welcomed renowned Security Researcher at CIRCL, Alexandre Dulaunoy, to talk about the more and more common “Data Breaches: The dirty business behind the scenes. When your leak becomes the product.”

He started the keynote by explaining the mission of CIRCL in analysing, collecting and handling the data and how data acquired during a breach i...
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SPARTA and CONCORDIA joined forces to build modern cybersecurity training infrastructures

16th Feb 2021

SPARTA Cybersecurity Training and Awareness (WP9) team has proceeded to the final stage of its endeavor to improve the state of cybersecurity training and education in EU. After producing the fundamental framework for identification of skills necessary for cybersecurity work roles (SPARTA CSF [1]) and its implementation in good-practice curricula [2], WP9 aims to have practical impact by the deployment of training pilots. 

SPARTA activities focus on stronger inclusion of so-called hands-on t...
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SPARTA PROJECT or how to get privileged access to groundbreaking Cybersecurity innovations and research?

15th Feb 2021

On December 10, 2020, SECURITYMADEIN.LU hold a virtual workshop session presenting the European based project, SPARTA and its consortium.

This event presented some key advancements, including the SPARTA Roadmap and Partnerships scheme, as well as demonstrated the breakthrough capabilities developed by its different Programs. The speakers also explained how companies could become associates in this program and get direct access to the latest research and innovation in Cybersecurity.

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2020 is over, what comes now? Interview with Pascal Steichen, CEO of SCEURITYMADEIN.LU.

8th Feb 2021

Pascal Steichen is CEO of SECURITYMADEIN.LU, the Cybersecurity Agency for the Luxembourg Economy and Municipalities and the structure behind the main information security initiatives of the Luxembourg government: CASES, CIRCL, C3 and the CYBERSECURITY LUXEMBOURG ecosystem. He is a member of the Luxembourg Cybersecurity Board, lecturer in information security at the University of Luxembourg, president of the CLUSIL and member of the FIC advisory board.

In the video below, Charles-Louis Machur...
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Federated infrastructure: Hands-on-Labs and Cyberranges

7th Feb 2021

On its way to Europe’s Digital Strategic Autonomy, the EU highlights the need to establish a Cybersecurity Competence Network (CCN) that covers public and private sectors, all member states, their critical infrastructures, and their value chains. SPARTA is one of the European Pilots designed to explore, test, and validate the most suitable approaches to establish and maintain such a network.

One of the main pillars of the CCN is to be able to have a high-performance infrastructure with which...
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The mission of a Joint Competence Centre Infrastructure

31st Jan 2021

The mission of a Joint Competence Centre Infrastructure (JCCI) is to promote and make available information about tools, infrastructure, data and learning content to all (and not only) partners and associates of SPARTA. Its objective is to be used to optimize research and innovation in cyber security, creating new services or extending those that are currently provided by third parties, offering learning, training and experimentation resources. Those singular assets can be accessed and used i...
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Security mechanisms and tools in SPARTA SAFAIR Program

24th Jan 2021

The advances in artificial intelligence (AI), concretely in machine learning (ML), have opened the implementation of it in many domains and applications. Among these domains, several critical fields can be found, such as healthcare. Malicious users, called adversaries, could modify the behaviour of these AI systems, obtaining undesired results and even having impact on the society. Thus, the cybersecurity has put attention to the security threats in AI. The SPARTA SAFAIR program seeks to deve...
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Threat analysis and model developed in SPARTA SAFAIR Program

19th Jan 2021

The current adoption of AI in computer-based systems and indications of its future ubiquitous presence increase the need for identification of threats against AI systems, such as attacks to availability of those systems or to data integrity.  The SPARTA SAFAIR program aims to ensure trustworthiness of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, including security, privacy, and reliability. For a better comprehension and knowledge of the threats, the first task of the program is to design and develo...
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Ethical dilemmas related to cybersecurity

10th Dec 2020

Authors: Pawlicka A., Pawlicki M., Choras M. (ITTI, Poznan, Poland)

Cybersecurity is the opposite of cybercrime; it deals with protecting people, their money and data. Despite being an undoubtedly positive thing, it causes some major concerns of ethical nature, which emerge and develop along with the development of cyberspace and online services.

Years ago, when cyberspace and the Internet had just started to gain their immense popularity, the main ethical dilemmas mostly concerned the broa...
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Innovation governance based on the diversity of factors that Shaped the Development of the SPARTA T-SHARK Program

22nd Nov 2020

T-SHARK aims to develop and validate methodological, organisational and technological solutions, thereby extending cybersecurity in order to achieve a comprehensive organisation of security functions that focus on threat prediction and full-spectrum cybersecurity awareness, providing high situational awareness and timely warning of threats.  Significantly, T-SHARK and 19 of its partners have focused their primary efforts on the question of delivering full-spectrum cybersecurity awareness with...
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