PRECINCT
Preparedness and Resilience Enforcement for Critical Infrastructures Cascading
Cyber-physical Threats
Establishing an Ecosystem Platform for connecting stakeholders of interdependent CIs and Emergency Services to collaboratively manage cyber-physical threats.
Vision.
To improve real-time Critical Infrastructure (CI) network modelling to increase the resilience and protection of CIs. This allows for better prediction and analysis of probable CI disruptions caused by malicious or natural incidents, as well as the anticipated cascading impact events may have across the CI network.
The challenge.
EU Critical Infrastructures (CIs) are increasingly vulnerable to a wide range of intentional cyber-physical attacks (malware, terrorist-driven exploits, etc.), as well as natural disasters (e.g. extreme weather, fires, earthquakes, disastrous consequences of global warming), and hybrid threats such as fake news.
Recent research and emerging solutions have focused on the protection of individual CIs (ports, energy distribution, hospitals, etc.). However, the interdependence of CIs has become more complex, and managing the impacts of cascading effects and enabling rapid recovery is becoming increasingly crucial as well as challenging.
Cyber-Physical Attacks
Natural Disasters
Hybrid Threats
Approach & solutions.
PRECINCT aims to implement Digital Twins and a Serious Game approach to identify vulnerabilities and test new detection and mitigation models and associated services in real-life scenarios. In more detail project solutions include:
- The PRECINCT Framework Specification for systematic CIs security and resilience management.
- A Cross-Facility collaborative cyber-physical Security and Resilience management Platform enabling CI stakeholders to develop AI-enabled PRECINCT Ecosystems and enhanced resilience support services.
- A vulnerability assessment tool that uses Serious Games to identify potential risks and resilience enhancements for each CI and the coordinated measures.
- A Digital Twinning tool to represent the CIs network topology, using Machine Learning algorithms to detect anomalies and warning conditions and give optimal response and mitigation actions.
Living Labs
The PRECINCT ecosystem is deployed in four large-scale LLs, providing measurement-based evidence of the targeted advantages in various scenarios.
Each LL will set up a CIs Coordination Centre (3C), which will be in charge of hosting and managing the integrated Digital Twin and Serious Games and will take an individual approach to establish the Coordination Centre.
The LL partners will form a Task Force to produce a 3C Blueprint for Standardised Message Exchanges, a generic Digital Twin Architecture, as well as Serious Games and Cyber Rage based training.
Our role.
INLECOM is coordinating PRECINCT LL3, consisting of three prominent transport critical infrastructures operating in the broader area of Attica, and ensures that the Living Lab will attain its business and technical objectives. In addition, INLECOM is also participating in other PRECINCT project business research and technical development tasks.
This project has received funding from the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under GA 101021668. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
