SPARTA: Strategic programs for advanced research and technology in Europe

Project Description

In the domain of Cybersecurity Research and innovation, European scientists hold pioneering positions in fields such as cryptography, formal methods, or secure components. Yet this excellence on focused domains does not translate into larger- scale, system-level advantages. Too often, scattered and small teams fall short of critical mass capabilities, despite demonstrating world-class talent and results. Europe’s strength is in its diversity, but that strength is only materialised if we cooperate, combine, and develop common lines of research. Given today’s societal challenges, this has become more than an advantage – an urgent necessity. Various approaches are being developed to enhance collaboration at many levels. Europe’s framework programs have sprung projects in cybersecurity over the past thirty years,encouraging international cooperation and funding support actions. More recently, the Cybersecurity PPP has brought together public institutions and industrial actors around common roadmaps and projects. While encouraging, these efforts have highlighted the need to break the mould, to step up investments and intensify coordination. The SPARTA proposal brings together a unique set of actors at the intersection of scientific excellence, technological innovation, and societal sciences in cybersecurity. Strongly guided by concrete and risky challenges, it will setup unique collaboration means, leading the way in building transformative capabilities and forming world-leading expertise centres. Through innovative governance, ambitious demonstration cases, and active community engagement, SPARTA aims at re-thinking the way cybersecurity research is performed in Europe across domains and expertise, from foundations to applications, in academia and industry.

Collaborating Companies or Organisations

Indra's Role

WP 3: Roadmap Design

• Identify current research interests in cybersecurity
• Support the definition and update of the SPARTA’s pilot roadmap
• Implement SPARTA workshops to collect the needs from local communities and end-users

WP 4: T-SHARK – Full-spectrum cybersecurity awareness

• Advanced SIEM and Cyber threat prevention specialized contributor for supporting cyber situational awareness capabilities

WP 10: Sustainable exploitation and IPR Legal and licensing support

• Defining a sustainable exploitation strategy for all SPARTA’s project results
• Creation, edition and distribution of all resources required in order to facilitate the sustainable exploitation of the project results

WP 11: Certification organization and support Map international/European cybersecurity certification initiatives

• Liaise with European and national cybersecurity authorities
• Support European and national cybersecurity authorities with evaluation facilities
• Provide recommendations for software development process cybersecurity compliance H2020

Univesities and technologies centers

Technologies used

in addition to supporting the definition of technological roadmaps for covering cybersecurity gaps, related research programs, certification and exploitation of the SPARTA outcomes, Indra’s role will be most outstanding within the T-SHARK(Full-spectrum cybersecurity awareness) research programme. In this context, predictive threat intelligence and artificial intelligence techniques will be developed for analysing information monitored by heterogeneous data sources (e.g. NOCs, SOCs, SIEMs, IDS/IPSs, etc.). This include the implementation/integration of artefacts that enable Dynamic Risk Identification & Assessment capabilities, and to anticipate cyber threats.

In addition, the following technologies need to be highlighted: NetVote, Cryptography, Blockchain, Quantum Computers, Transaction Based Charges, Hybrid Models, Open Source with Ring-fencing, Artificial Intelligence.

More Information

SPARTA, under reference nº H2020-830892, has been funded by the European Commission within the H2020 Programme.