DEFENDER

Project Summary

DEFENDER will:

• Model Critical Energy infrastructures (CEI) as distributed Cyber-Physical Systems for managing the potential reciprocal effects of cyber and physical threats
• Deploy a novel security governance model, which leverages on lifecycle assessment for cost-effective security management over the time
• Bring people at centre stage by empowering them as virtual sensors for threat detection, as first level emergency responders to attacks, or by considering workforce as potential threats.

DEFENDER will adapt, integrate, upscale and validate a number of TRL 4-5 technologies and deploy them within a TRL7 integrated yet adaptable framework for CEI security, resilience and self-healing “by design”, with a view to address, detect, and mitigate cyber-physical threats. To this aim DEFENDER framework will:

• combine a range of devices/ technologies for situational awareness (fixed sensors like PMUs, mobile devices like drones and advanced video surveillance)
• intelligent processing for cyber-physical threat detection witha toolbox for incident mitigation and emergency response and
• Human-In-The-Loop for managing people interaction with CEI, while leveraging on blockchain technology for peer-to-peer trustworthiness.

Our role

SingularLogic participates in the design and development of DEFENDER components as both a contributor or leader of relevant tasks.