Funded Projects

Research and innovation projects funded by Cyber 4.0

BID 1 – 2024 – Ongoing

The project aims to provide support for melanoma diagnostics because of the high mortality associated with this form of skin cancer. Indeed, in order to increase patients’ chances of survival, prevention and enhancing the diagnostic and monitoring steps are crucial. The project intends to exploit systems based on the deep learning (DL) method for dermoscopic image analysis (DIA). The goal of the project is to make melanoma diagnosis faster and more accurate and to encourage active patient involvement.

  • COORDINATOR: FORMIT Foundation
  • PARTNERS:
  • COLLABORATION: University of Rome International Studies ; IDI IRCCS – Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 137,619.67 Euro
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 87,492.51 Euro

MULTIBRAND AUTOMOTIVE CYBERSECURITY SOFTWARE 2.0

The MACS2 project extends the first MACS project, setting the following goals:

  • Diagnostic features on the radio spectrum: advanced SDR (Software-Defined Radio) capabilities to prevent theft of the medium
  • Development of cloud-based “Black Box” functionality for post-event analysis and diagnostics
  • Development of cloud-based software tools and use of external AI services for analysis of data collected by sensors
  • Support for vehicle fleet management
  • Software extensions for safety and vehicle behavior monitoring.

  • COORDINATOR: Tomware s.c.a.r.l.
  • PARTNER: Netgate S.r.l. ; W3make.it Consortium
  • COLLABORATION: University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 471,732.70 Euro
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 292,484.91 Euro

It is an innovative platform for personal safety in the automotive field, with special reference to those using operating machinery. Overall, the system includes tools for analyzing driver behavior by studying driving style data and patterns of attention and physiological signals related to diabetes. These are combined with techniques and algorithms for the detection of driver drowsiness and fatigue.

  • COORDINATOR: NETCARING S.r.l.
  • PARTNER: ESA S.r.l. ; MATER SCARL
  • COLLABORATIONS: MATER SCARL
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 199,911.55
  • CYBER 4.0 COFUNDING: 128,984.61 Euro

The project proposes the research and development of advanced technologies for extended radio frequency interference monitoring, providing a “New-Space” solution for the analysis of the bands most widely used in satellite services. In detail, the project has the following objectives:

  1. To provide an enabling technology for “RF situational awareness” extended to the bands most widely used in satellite services;
  2. Study new RF monitoring solutions that are flexible and adaptable to both ground and space usage scenarios;
  3. Extend the capabilities of the interference monitoring sensor to cover bands up to Ku (18 GHz).
  4. Consolidate new emerging markets where the technology can be offered.

  • COORDINATOR: Qascom Ltd.
  • PARTNER: Amaldi Foundation
  • COLLABORATIONS:
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 455,000 euros
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 283,500 Euro

Scalable reMote Accessible monitoRing plaTform for patient CARE

The project proposes the development of an advanced telemedicine technology platform focused on medical device integration, ease of use, and data security. The main innovation lies in the modularity of the platform, which will enable, over time, the smooth integration of a wide range of medical devices from different manufacturers, providing flexibility and customization in remote health care. In summary, SMARTCARE aims to fuel the transformative process of telemedicine, improving access and quality of health care through innovative and secure solutions.

  • COORDINATOR: ESA System S.r.l.
  • PARTNERS:
  • COLLABORATION: IFC CNR-Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council, Pisa
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 499,988.69 Euro
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 277,451.19 Euros

The project proposes a new Large Language Model (LLM)-based chatbot to control Medical Digital Twin constructed using clinical data and ensure the security of the underlying sensitive information required for their creation and use. This autonomous system will provide periodic monitoring and risk assessment using advanced algorithms to analyze and synthesize relevant information. The Chatbot will simultaneously act as a user-friendly security tool capable of assisting and guiding untrained personnel in complex operations such as Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation practices and as a tool for interacting with Digital Twin in an intuitive and direct manner.

  • COORDINATOR: RBF Morph S.r.l.
  • PARTNER: LivGemini S.r.l.
  • COLLABORATION: University of Rome – Tor Vergata
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 309,994.33 Euro
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 171,367.78 Euro

Biometrics Autographed Signature Encryption

Keyless’ proposed innovation with the BASE project addresses a crucial challenge in digital security: providing a robust and user-friendly method of authentication and digital signature. The cryptographic module aims to ensure the integrity of online transactions by securely managing cryptographic keys and sensitive information, integrating standard protocols and complying with GDPR, CCPA, SCA and PSD3. Using advanced techniques such as zero-knowledge proof, secure multi-party computation and fuzzy extractors, a distributed biometric authentication system is proposed without saving fingerprints on centralized servers.

  • COORDINATOR: Keyless Technologies S.r.l.
  • PARTNERS:
  • COLLABORATION: Sapienza University of Rome
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 594,107 Euro
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 389,839.40 Euro

The main objective of the project is to develop a Root-of-Trust architecture that integrates the Quantum Random Number Generator underlying Random Power. Root-of-Trusts constitute the foundational element of any security system, capable of generating and guarding the unique identity of devices and generating, storing, and managing cryptographic and authentication keys, the construction processes of which always go through the generation of bit sequences and then random numbers.

  • COORDINATOR: Random Power S.r.l.
  • PARTNERS:
  • COLLABORATION: University of Insubria ; AGH-University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland ; Sapienza University of Rome
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 298,132.59 Euro
  • CYBER 4.0 COFUNDING: 201,618.12 Euros

Distributed Content Security

The project aims to protect enterprise data from ransomware attacks through the integration of IOTA (applications in the context of the Internet-of-Things-IoT) and IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) technologies: the solution combines the security and performance of the IOTA distributed ledger with the decentralized storage capabilities of IPFS, offering advanced and cost-effective protection for application data.
The innovativeness of the solution is to enable the distribution of files on an IPFS distributed storage, accessible through a gateway service supporting various protocols, provided by a plug-in that can be activated on the distributed registry nodes.

  • COORDINATOR: Teleconsys S.p.A.
  • PARTNERS:
  • COLLABORATIONS: IOTA Foundation ; Sapienza University of Rome, Campus Biomedico University
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 205,106.24 Euros
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 92,628.54 Euro

The platform, through multifactor biometric identity, prevents illicit access to the vehicle and creates a “digital lock” of in-vehicle infotainment systems. At the digital level, CYBERBOSS intends to build a software platform with a comprehensive and integrated Security Testing system to detect and filter cyber attacks toward the vehicle’s IVIs (In Vehicle Infotainment) or TCUs and “determine” in real time the security status of a vehicle at all stages of the vehicle life cycle by improving the objectivity of the assessment and providing in a simple way a set of effective solutions for restoring vehicle security.

  • COORDINATOR: MAESTRALE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY S.r.l.
  • PARTNERS:
  • COLLABORATIONS: University of Guglielmo Marconi
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 404,240.17 Euro
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 205,049.85 Euro

Advanced System for the Secure Management of Satellite Images Using Homomorphic Encryption

The objective of the project is to develop an advanced software system for formatting satellite products, specifically designed for the management and processing of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) and optical satellite images. This system will need to employ homomorphic encryption techniques, thus allowing key operations to be performed without the need to decrypt the data. This innovative approach will allow a number of key operations to be performed while keeping the data in encrypted form at all times, thus ensuring maximum security and confidentiality.

  • COORDINATOR: DIGIMAT S.p.A.
  • PARTNER: TrAI Group Italia S.r.l.
  • COLLABORATIONS:
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 449,018.10 Euro
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 265,838.42 Euro

BID 1 – 2023 – Ongoing

Security, Reliability and Transparency of Machine Learning and Big Data analytics techniques

The proposed project builds on CybersecH, a Cyber 4.0-funded initiative that was successfully completed in February 2023 and led to the development of the modular AIA-Guard platform (aiaguard.com). This project aims to expand the functionality of the AIA-Guard platform by bringing the final TRL to 8 through three main initiatives assessed as strategic and with strong commercial potential. First, this will involve the expansion of the modules related to Adversarial attacks, the refinement of the AI Shield module, and the extension of the Data sanitization & anonymization module. It needs to be kept in mind that, considering the planned improvements and extensions over what was developed in the previous CybersecH project, currently the solution at the beginning of the project has TRL 6.

  • COORDINATOR: Datrix S.p.A.
  • PARTNERS:
  • COLLABORATIONS:
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 570,751.47 Euros
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 342,451 Euro

Algorithms for Graph Search for dispersed data discovery on Open sources

Understanding Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is a key aspect in the work of analysts who must build successful strategies to mitigate (ex-post) cyber attacks and provide decision support in a rapid and more informed way to implement new countermeasures. Thus, the fundamental principle in the development of Graph Search Algorithms for dispersed data discovery on Open cyber sources will be modularity and flexibility: A.R.G.O. will not rely on fixed analysis and visualizations, but will provide the ability to create clusters of interrelated nodes to solve the problem. The structure will ensure that a piece of data that has not been considered in the graph today will still be importable within A.R.G.O. and that analysis sets will always be extendable at will based on future user needs.

  • COORDINATOR: Systems & Automation S.p.A.
  • PARTNERS:
  • COLLABORATIONS:
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 399,003.33 Euro
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 242,932 Euros

Early Security Incident Investigation

The solution proposes the integration of a specifically trained Large Language Model (LLM), which fits synergistically into the Sharelock ITDR and Sharelock CWP products to conduct investigations into the security alerts that the product produces. With the local LLM, it is possible to meet the challenges posed by the complexity of cyber threats, enabling detailed and timely investigations of individual or groups of anomalies.

  • COORDINATOR: Sharelock S.r.l.
  • PARTNERS:
  • COLLABORATIONS:
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 732,929.31
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 400,000 Euro

Integrated System for Information Security in Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

The main objective of the project is to develop an innovative electronic device capable of detecting and protecting electric vehicle charging stations from side-channel attacks. In fact, such systems are actually cyber-physical systems connected to communication networks for a variety of reasons, including station management, logging and transmission of electrical operating data related to vehicle charging operations (energy delivered, time profiles, etc.), as well as management of the HMI and economic transactions associated with its operation. Being systems connected to the data network and the power grid, as also highlighted in the industry literature, they lend themselves to various side-channel attachment surfaces.

  • COORDINATOR: TME – Test and Manufacturing Engineering S.r.l.
  • PARTNER: Alfagreen Solution S.r.l.
  • COLLABORATIONS:
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 612,186.65 Euro
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 298,602 Euro

CYbersecure Block-chain based in-vehicle cOmmunications towaRd post quantum cryptoGraphy

The CYBORG project, as a continuation and extension of the SHINE-ON (Secured HIgh accuracy localizatioN Equipment for automotive applicatioNs) project, aims to build a passive protection architecture from cyber attacks in the intra-vehicle environment with blockchain-based forensically relevant data authentication functions to robustly and accurately implement the vehicle localization function, which is essential for connected and autonomous driving that needs to be fail-operational and cyber-secure.

  • COORDINATOR: Rodiolabs
  • PARTNER: Drivesec S.r.l
  • COLLABORATIONS:
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 479,971.88 Euro
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 216,591 Euro
Learn more…

Satellite information system on-demand services – Biosat marketplace

Biosat MP (market place) aims to help first the local PA and then the industry to bridge the gap between the potential usefulness of Earth Observation-derived products and the practical and operational information needs expressed by Italian Local Public Administrations. It promotes the use of Earth Observation-derived information products, primarily from ESA/EU missions and the future IRIDE constellation, to raise awareness among target user communities of the applicability of Earth Observation services in their daily operations. The ultimate goal is the creation of a Marketplace with a set of predefined and operational services. The result will be to generate a secure, clear and rapid process for the provision of value-added services and data to PA.

  • COORDINATOR: IPTSAT Ltd.
  • PARTNERS:
  • COLLABORATIONS:
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 183,943.7 Euros
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 104,906 Euro

Wireless In-package Sensors to protect the Pharmaceutical Industry against cyber-physical attacKs

Pharmaceutical plants and the entire supply chain, in the same way as other critical infrastructures such as data centers, power plants, and ICT networks, have now become potential targets of cyber-physical attacks. In this project, a monitoring and protection infrastructure against the aforementioned threats will be developed, which will be based on the synergistic integration of Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence systems, overturning traditional monitoring paradigms. In fact, it will be the pharmaceutical product itself with its packaging that will detect the effects of process attacks or counterfeit actions by recording environmental anomalies within the packaging microenvironment, both during the production process and in the subsequent storage and quality control phases.

  • COORDINATOR: Radio6Sense
  • PARTNER: GUNPOWDER
  • COLLABORATIONS:
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 431,811.38 Euro
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 234,327 Euro

Data protection, development and implementation of technologies to preserve the security and confidentiality of sensitive data in advanced digital telemedicine applications, including through artificial intelligence techniques and blockchain technology

The Health-e-Data project, aims to explore and validate innovative technological elements essential to facilitate the management, exchange, and exploitation of health data-with a focus on data generated in a telemedicine and telemonitoring context. Health-e-Data aims to enable mobility of health data between different actors and with the involvement of citizens and patients, creating new models of trust building that can overcome the structural limitations of existing systems. At the same time, the project aims to validate from a scientific-technical point of view the use of artificial intelligence algorithms to facilitate the use of data through synthesizing processes, so that it can be made more easily available to developers.

  • COORDINATOR: Moveax S.r.l.
  • PARTNER: Exprivia S.p.A.
  • COLLABORATIONS:
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 582,791.95 Euro
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 305,089 Euro

Home REhab

HomeRehab is a home-based respiratory rehabilitation solution based on a medical software device distributed as a mobile APP together with a physiotherapy exercise tool kit, enabling patients to carry out the rehabilitation pathway independently at home, but always supported by the support of a physiotherapist who supervises the sessions.

  • COORDINATOR: Aenduo Ltd.
  • PARTNERS:
  • COLLABORATIONS:
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 499,686.85 Euro
  • CYBER 4.0 COFINANCING: 216,592 Euro

BID 1 – 2021 – Concluded

Conti

WITH INTELIGENT TECNOLOGY

Threat Intelligence (TI) is the process of obtaining cyber threat knowledge from many sources and can be used to discover malicious events for the purpose of protecting organizations’ assets. The area in which TI fits is at the core of the challenges of Industry 4.0, where manufacturing and technology specification standards require architecture design that can unify the operational technology platforms of the relevant industry and traditional IT systems to have the right profitability.
The project aims to act on the clearly identified need to support SMEs in the need to align with technological advances in the industrial revolution context called Industry 4.0, in the world of end-to-end engineering and along the entire value chain, specifically in the management of IT services, and aims to adapt and use the Smart SME Readiness Assessment Methodology (SSTRA) methodology to make it an integral part of a software tool, enabling SMEs to obtain the information they need to analyze and detect the technology gap that needs to be bridged to implement effective IT services and to integrate the benefits of Industry 4.0.

  • COORDINATOR: Haruspex
  • PARTNER: Leonardo
  • COLLABORATIONS: Cyber 4.0
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 247,930.98
  • CYBER CO-FINANCING 4.0:1 01,000.00

BRIE

BLOCKCHAIN REGISTER FOR IMPORT EXPORT

The solution proposed by Chainside and Moveax companies consists of a registry based on open blockchain technology to certify import/export trade transactions in the European Union.
The proposed system has been calibrated to the specific needs of European trade intermediaries who enable non-EU traders to use the new VAT import regime, and allows the development of services for the benefit of customs traders, banks, statistical study agencies and national and international institutions interested in analyzing the flows of imported and exported goods in the EU market.
The BRIE solution, thanks to a blockchain-based technology infrastructure, facilitates and accelerates the certification procedures of intermediaries, reducing the time required for customs activities,
including data verification. In addition, the distributed ledger and tamper-proof data stored in the blockchain ensures the authenticity of information and makes its transfer to the authorities in the importing country reliable. In particular, customs authorities will thus be able to reduce their administrative workload and optimize their receiving capacity. Finally, the BRIE solution serves as a controlled-access data repository for analyzing aggregate or detailed information on import/export flows.

  • COORDINATOR: Moveax
  • PARTNER: Chainside
  • COLLABORATIONS: Cyber 4.0
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 431,542.50
  • CYBER 4.0 CO-FUNDING: 179,000.00

KEEPCALM

KERNEL ENGINES ENABLE (TO) PREVENT CYBER ATTACKS (WITH) LEARNING MACHINES

Cyber-attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, targeted, and threatening-their strategies vary through the adoption of interdisciplinary techniques and methods. Cyber-attack represents an explicit form of terrorist attack on both private companies and government entities. The goal of KEEP CALM is to develop a tool for cyber-attack prediction from observations made on network properties and characteristics, as well as measurements of observed network traffic parameters and types.

The project aims to study and implement methods and tools to prevent breaches of a specific technology infrastructure. To achieve the goals set in the project, a new type of approach aimed at assisting organizations by increasing their awareness of what actions need to be taken to detect and respond quickly to cyber-attacks will be studied. The ultimate goal of the research project is to develop a system for use in an operational environment (TRL7) capable of:

  1. monitor a network’s metrics stored in public databases or made available by other organizations with respect to configuration and time series measures of malicious activity (spam, phishing, scanning, etc.);
  2. Acquire the monitored data automatically;
  3. pre-process the acquired data automatically with the aim of preparing optimal input data for Machine Learning engines;
  4. input the preprocessed data to prediction classifiers that will assign a risk factor according to the observed traffic;
  5. process input data based on Machine Learning paradigms, looking for the best type of predictive classifier based on its ability to identify real and false threats;
  6. Provide real-time measures of risk levels;
  7. Automatically auto-update the forecast classification engines;
  8. Develop predictions of future attacks based on the acquired time series.

  • COORDINATOR: SOGEI
  • PARTNER: ISC
  • COLLABORATIONS: Cyber 4.0
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 433,021.82
  • CYBER 4.0 CO-FUNDING: 152,000.00

M-A-C-S

MULTIBRAND AUTOMOTIVE CYBERSECURITY SOFTWARE

Advanced digital technologies recently introduced in vehicles and ever-expanding global connectivity greatly improve the quality and extent of services provided, but at the same time critical issues and vulnerabilities on the Cybersecurity front are increasing, thus necessitating a renewed approach.

The M-A-C-S represents the first solution for a comprehensive approach to cybersecurity in the automotive industry that monitors and ensures the cybersecurity of the vehicle on which the M-A-C-S is installed.
The goals to be achieved with M-A-C-S are to develop a testing methodology and related controls for the detection and management of cybersecurity events in the automotive market that is vendor-independent, and can be activated at any point in the life of the vehicle, and at the same time scalable to the point that the product, in its commercialization phase can be directly inserted into the production line in a secure-by-design perspective.
The software will be integrated into the micro-appliance, equipped with radiomobile connectivity, and will allow data to be collected from local sensors and vehicular buses, via standard accesses and passive, noninvasive transceivers, without impacting the certifications of pre-existing E/E (Electric/Electronic) vehicular electronics systems. The data collection will be feasible in compliance with dynamic and contextdependent, remotely configurable filtering conditions. The micro-appliance will be able to enable the activation of advanced vehicle authentication and authorization services, in integration with any pre-existing immobiliser and antitheft systems.
Dynamically collected data will flow in encrypted form to a cloud service, where realtime SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) analytics can detect anomalies and adverse events, generate situational interpretations, and issue notifications and alerts to owners, maintainers, or specific support services, subject to the decisions and authorizations set by the asset owners.
Particularly interesting use cases are envisioned where the manager administers a fleet of vehicles, governing their configurations and integrating asset management and related reporting, operating event management in an organic, structured and centralized manner.

  • COORDINATOR: Tomware
  • PARTNER: NetGate
  • COLLABORATIONS: LazioConnect
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 399,831.97
  • CYBER 4.0 CO-FUNDING: 189,000.00

MAPS-EH

SECURITY POLICY IN EHEALTH

MAPS-EH is an IT solution for monitoring the implementation of access security policies to information systems in the Healthcare environment.
The product provides comprehensive support for automatic verification of compliance between access events recorded on IT resources and the security policies established by an organization, enabling automatic detection of any anomalies.
MAPS-EH is contextualized in the context of ISO/IEC 27000 Security Management Systems in which policies and classification of information and IT resources are governed by a set of practices prescribed by the reference standards. The product systematically supports and automates a set of activities for monitoring the implementation of resource access security policies carried out by the entities operating in this area.
The main target entities can be identified as:
– Security Managers who have corporate security governance tasks. The product provides tools to support the high-level specification of policies and an overall view of the progress of their implementations.
– IT Security Manager who has the ability to monitor the correct and consistent implementation of corporate security policies on the company’s physical assets, having a clear idea of the anomalies detected and being able to take appropriate corrective action accordingly.
Therefore, the objective of the project is to design and develop a solution for monitoring the resources of an organization operating in the health sector (e.g., file systems, DBMS, applications, network equipment) for the purpose of verifying the effective implementation of security policies defined by management and capable of integrating with any Identity Access Management (IAM) system for policy management.

  • COORDINATOR: Aton
  • PARTNER: DeepBlue
  • COLLABORATIONS: Cyber 4.0; LazioConnect; Uni Milano Bicocca
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 344,553.9
  • CYBER 4.0 CO-FUNDING: 149,000.00

ISHealth

IMPROVED SECURITY E-HEALTH

The ISHealth project is proposed, within the vast field of telemedicine, as an innovative system aimed at uniting two almost always disjointed medical viewpoints, the one oriented to physical and quantitative measures and the one oriented to psychological and qualitative measures. The Me platform, which is currently operational for physical telemedicine, will be the starting point for the core of the system, which will, first and foremost, be strengthened with additional cybersecurity measures (particularly at the application and data levels). It is also planned to enrich the system through the collection of emotional, psychological and qualitative indicators, obtained through sophisticated image analysis, which will be combined with the physical ones for an overall health and wellness scoring on the subject.

The main end users of the platform will be chronic, frail or elderly patients who, whether at home or at RSAs, will be able to be followed with an innovative approach, through the identification of a health status that will also take into account their emotional state. The validated ISHealth platform at the end of the project will also be able to comply with all regulations and quality certifications in the safety and biomedical fields.

  • COORDINATOR: Sigma Consulting
  • PARTNER: IoT Maker
  • COLLABORATIONS: Wisdom
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 198,018.00
  • CYBER CO-FINANCING 4.0: 79,000.00

QCS-TB

QUANTUM COMMUNICATION AND SYNCHRONIZATION TESTBED

The objective of the proposal is to implement a prototype secure communication and synchronization infrastructure based on quantum distribution of cryptographic keys. The distribution of synchronization signals is critical in various domains with relevant security issues, from satellite navigation to power distribution networks.
Under the proposed initiative, an end-to-end infrastructure representative of a configuration of interest for both ground-based and satellite link applications will be designed, implemented and verified.
In the ground segment, the synchronization signal distributed over optical fiber will be encrypted and the key distributed using Quantum Key Distribution quantum technologies. In the in-air (free-space) segment, technology will be developed to perform the same operation over distances of about ten kilometers in the atmosphere.
The links covered by the proposal will be realized by exploiting and extending optical and quantum infrastructures of relevance to the territory, in particular the quantum fiber optic backbone connecting Turin and Rome. The co-presence and “by-design” integration of secure communication and secure time and frequency transfer, in addition to being an element of innovation as far as experimental activities are concerned, is an element of high interest and criticality in supporting the development of critical infrastructure in the territory.

  • COORDINATOR: Thales Alenia Space Italy
  • PARTNER: Telespace; Micro Photon Devices
  • COLLABORATIONS: Cyber 4.0; Wisdom
  • TOTAL BUDGET: 405,846.00
  • CYBER 4.0 CO-FUNDING: 151,000.00

BID 2 – 2021 – Concluded

CybersecH

CYBERSECURITY HARDENING FOR A.I. SOLUTIONS

The proposed solution (CybersecH) offers a concrete and highly innovative response aimed at countering Artificial Intelligence Attacks (AIA), as it aims to identify possible vulnerabilities associated with machine-learning components by going through all the implementation phases (software development, database creation, model training, production release, etc.).

The goal is to harden (harden) AI modules in a fully automated and schedulable manner, providing detailed reporting with identified risks and vulnerabilities.

  • COORDINATOR: 3rd Place
  • PARTNERS:NO
  • COLLABORATIONS: Uni Tuscia
  • TOTAL BUDGET:196,260.18
  • CYBER CO-FINANCING 4.0:98,130.00

BINTRAWINE

BLOCKCHAIN, TRACKING AND TRACING SOLUTIONS FOR WINE

Development of an IT platform capable of offering integrated services to support data management processes within a complex supply chain, such as that of DOC wine, in order to ensure reliability, traceability, verifiability and updating of information (on which to carry out analysis, flow simulations and report generation) both for all operators involved and for end consumers.

  • COORDINATOR:Aton Ltd.
  • PARTNER:BSD Design
  • COLLABORATIONS:Cyber 4.0; Wisdom.
  • TOTAL BUDGET:393,628.33
  • CYBER CO-FINANCING 4.0:180,550.00

SHINE-ON

SECURED HIGH ACCURACY LOCALIZATION EQUIPMENT FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS

Development of an innovative Electronic Controller Unit (ECU) to increase the accuracy of vehicle location, which is critical for connected-drive cars, while ensuring high levels of safety in line with the new ISO/SAE DIS 21434 “Automotive Cybersecurity Engineering” cybersecurity standard, which are essential for approval from a cyber security perspective.

  • COORDINATOR:RadioLabs
  • PARTNER:Drivesec
  • COLLABORATIONS:Cyber 4.0; Uni Aquila
  • TOTAL BUDGET:400,000.00
  • CYBER CO-FINANCING 4.0:189,731.00
Learn more:

QKD SVS

QKD SYSTEM VOLUME SIMULATOR

Implementation of a software platform for end-to-end simulation of a quantum key distribution service.

The tool will enable the evaluation by means of dynamic scenarios (including functional and environmental aspects) of architectural, operational and related security solutions in terms of availability and performance of the service itself.

  • COORDINATOR:ThinkQuantum
  • PARTNER:Thales Alenia Space Italia; Telespace; Star Workshop; Enginium
  • COLLABORATIONS:Cyber 4.0; Uni PD
  • TOTAL BUDGET:439,634.64
  • CYBER CO-FINANCING 4.0:199,817.00

SI-PAC

INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR THE SECURITY OF THE MANAGEMENT OF COMPLEX AMBULATORY PACKAGES

The project aims to facilitate the management of the conditions of Syncope by supporting the physician in performing all the very complex activities required by the disease protocol while avoiding any errors and updating and monitoring the patient on all stages of the course in a timely and accurate manner in an almost fully automatic manner, all while ensuring communication and data security at a very high level to avoid cyber attacks that could compromise the availability of the solution and at the same time the consistency and inviolability of the data.

  • COORDINATOR:HMS IT
  • PARTNERS:NO
  • COLLABORATIONS:Uni Tor Vergata
  • TOTAL BUDGET:404,182.26
  • CYBER CO-FINANCING 4.0:100,000.00

SEPLES

SECURE PLATFORM OF E-HEALTH SERVICES

The objective of the proposed innovation is to offer to the market a software platform consisting of a constellation of always secure health services, in which data is always encrypted, prepared to operate in a federated manner in compliance with European guidelines and GDPR. The SEPLES solution is an ecosystem that harmoniously and in a highly integrated way includes:
– The core component related to the patient and physician services platform;
– The data component, enabling the analysis of the evolutionary trends of the treated pathologies and the elaboration of analytical and statistical indicators;
– The security and compliance measures;
– The integration possibilities with other cooperating systems of the Healthcare galaxy.

  • COORDINATOR:ECUBIT
  • PARTNER:Crypt Security
  • COLLABORATIONS:Uni Tor Vergata; ISS.
  • TOTAL BUDGET:407,872.00
  • CYBER CO-FINANCING 4.0:163,894.00

CY-CAD

CYBER-SECURITY FRAMEWORK FOR MEDICAL DATA DISSEMINATION

The CY_CAD (Cyber-security framework for medical data dissemination) project aims to design, implement, and validate a system for the distribution of medical data. The system consists of a secure architectural layer and provides, through a portal, secure and controlled accesses to relevant protected information.
The Project is based on a cyber-secure architecture that has already been validated by one of the two proposing companies for an application to a different domain (distribution for scientific purposes, protecting personal and private data, of data related to scientific experiments conducted aboard the International Space Station). The innovative aspect and benefit of a dedicated implementation for the heathcare sector lies in the type of data and protection criteria specific to the sector, which will be analyzed and considered as requirements for the process of classification, normalization and controlled access to the data.
The Project Team includes Human Factors experts, who are able to design the data access portal, taking into account the users’ needs and optimizing its interfaces for operational use, and to deliver courses dedicated to the aspects related to Human Factors in Cyber-Security, customized to take into account the specific characteristics (operational procedures and composition of the work team) of the Organization in order to help increase among the stakeholders (end users from the system) the culture of cybersecurity and data protection.
The project also has as one of its objectives to provide an analysis, limited to the project use case, of the data breach management policies and associated procedures adopted by the entity that manages and provides the medical reference data for the project. The analysis will lead to a set of guidelines, to improve security-related policies and procedures, and mitigation proposals to reduce the impact of possible risks identified during the analysis.

  • COORDINATOR:DeepBlue
  • PARTNER:Trilogos
  • COLLABORATIONS:Cyber 4.0; LazioConnect; Uni Cattolica
  • TOTAL BUDGET:395,689.03
  • CYBER CO-FINANCING 4.0:176,046.00