September 06, 2024
COBALT Project Convenes for its Third Plenary Meeting in Murcia
On September 3rd, COBALT partners convened in Murcia, Spain for the third project plenary meeting, hosted by the University of Murcia. Along with the rest of the 14 organizations participating, eBOS was represented by R&D Project Managers Mr. Thanasis Christofides and Dr Rafaella Elia who are leading the company’s involvement. The meeting, marking month 11 of the project, offered the opportunity to the partners to present the achievements so far, discuss open issues and project progress as well as future direction. At this stage the focus was mainly on finalizing architecture, design and technical requirements for the different functional blocks of the COBALT framework.
The project envisions dealing with current challenges faced in cybersecurity certification, especially ones where the integration of different modules and technologies, such as Industrial AI and Quantum Computing, create security discrepancies and discontinuities, as well as inefficiencies due to the lack of a unified certification model for cybersecurity in ICT. To that end, COBALT will develop Continuous Certification functionality leveraging Digital Twinning (DT) to model, analyse and certify different processes from different verticals, and verify whether by certifying the DT its physical counterpart is effectively certified. Moreover, it will address Quantum High Performance Computing and AI certification, by assessing and analysing existing procedures and processes, while also showcasing the developed framework in a set of cutting-edge pilot use cases focusing on Industrial AI, Quantum, and ICT infrastructure.
eBOS will lead the effort towards maximizing the impact of the COBALT results through market analysis and strategy definition, socio-economical sustainability analysis, ecosystem business models, dissemination, communication and awareness campaigns, standardization and empowering European cybersecurity certification. Furthermore, eBOS will have significant involvement in developing the techniques for assessing and managing the risk associated with the target of evaluation during its whole life cycle as well as the development of the COBALT Continuous Certification Toolkit. In addition, eBOS will participate in the integration of the COBALT ecosystem and the demonstrations on the Industrial AI and Quantum domains, which will showcase the advantages of the COBALT unified certification framework.
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