Digital Europe: Enlarging Existing or Launching New Cross-Border SOC Platforms

Conditions

The focus is on processes and tools to prevent, detect and analyse emerging cyberattacks. The focus is also on the acquisition and/or incorporation of common (automation) tools, processes and shared data infrastructures to manage and share operational cybersecurity information across the EU.

Projects should contribute to one or more of the following goals:

• Improve and sustain common situational awareness and capabilities in detection and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI). SOC platforms support the development of better-performing data analysis, detection and response tools by combining more data, including new internal data retrieved by consortia members.
• Enable broader pooling of key data and CTI and the distribution of threat intelligence widely and to a large and diverse group of actors. Think of Cybersecurity Emergency Response Teams, Cyber Security Incident Response Teams, Information Sharing and Analysis Centres, and operators of critical infrastructures.
• New tools based on advanced AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Machine Learning (ML), data analytics and other key cybersecurity technologies.
• Underpinning these are research results, testing and validation in real-world conditions, combined with access to supercomputing facilities (e.g. to strengthen consistency and detection characteristics of platforms across borders).
• Provide key information without delay to networks and entities responsible for operational cooperation on cybersecurity and crisis management at the EU level.

Read more about this call on the European Commission's Funding & Tender Portal (Topic-ID DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07-SOCPLAT).

Submission criteria

This subsidy is exclusively for public institutions acting as national SOCs.