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Protection of Critical Infrastructures from advanced combined cyber and physical threats

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Protection of critical infrastructures from advanced combined cyber and physical threats

The increased physical and cyberattacks against EU critical infrastructures (CIs) require advanced security and protection systems. The EU-funded PRAETORIAN project will deliver a multidimensional installation-specific toolset comprising a physical situation awareness system, a cyber situation awareness system, a hybrid situation awareness system (including digital twins), and a coordinated response system including a decision support system. The toolset will assist CIs’ security managers in their decision-making to prevent and resist potential cyber, physical or combined security threats to their own CIs and other interrelated infrastructures. The project will deal with human-made cyber- and physical attacks or natural disasters and demonstrate its results in two international airports, two ports, three hospitals and two power plants. It will also consider potential cascading effects.

Objective

PRAETORIAN strategic goal is to increase the security and resilience of European CIs, facilitating the coordinated protection of interrelated CI against combined physical and cyber threats. To that end, the project will provide a multidimensional (economical, technological, policy, societal) yet installation-specific toolset comprising: (i) a Physical Situation Awareness system, (ii) a Cyber Situation Awareness system; (iii) a Hybrid Situation Awareness system, which will include digital twins of the infrastructure under protection; and (iv) a Coordinated Response system. The PRAETORIAN toolset will support the security managers of Critical Infrastructures (CI) in their decision making to anticipate and withstand potential cyber, physical or combined security threats to their own infrastructures and other interrelated CIs that could have a severe impact on their performance and/or the security of the population in their vicinity.
The project will specifically tackle (i.e. prevent, detect, response and, in case of a declared attack, mitigate) human-made cyber and physical attacks or natural disasters affecting CIs. It will also address how an attack or incident in a specific CI can jeopardise the normal operation of other neighbouring/interrelated CIs, and how to make all of them more resilient, by predicting cascading effects and proposing a unified response among CIs and assisting First Responder teams. PRAETORIAN is a CI-led, user-driven project, which will demonstrate its results in three international pilot clusters –some of them cross border– involving 9 outstanding critical infrastructures: 2 international airports, 2 ports, 3 hospitals and 2 power plants.

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Call for proposal

H2020-SU-INFRA-2018-2019-2020

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Sub call

H2020-SU-INFRA-2020

Funding Scheme

IA - Innovation action

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ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE
Net EU contribution
€ 942 375,00
Address
AVENUE DE WAGRAM 22
75008 Paris
France

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Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris
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Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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Total cost
€ 1 346 250,00

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