As explained by our partners in previous blog posts, the platform that is being developed at the IRIS project will be deployed and validated with the help of 3 Pilot Use Cases (PUC), located in 3 Smart Cities: Barcelona, Tallinn and Helsinki. Validation is a very necessary step to guarantee that the requirements and needs [...]

Data Protection and Accountability module   The Data Protection and Accountability (DPA) module will be responsible for storing audit logs of activities performed on the Collaborative Threat Intelligence (CTI) database through the Advanced Threat Intelligence Orchestrator. The purpose and primary role of the DPA module within the IRIS architecture is to: Ensure accountability, auditing and [...]

Advanced Threat Intelligence Orchestrator in IRIS project In the context of IRIS, Advanced Threat Intelligence Orchestrator will act as a medium for communication between external data sources and stakeholders. More specifically, it will manage, prioritize, and share cyber threat information in collaboration with the rest of the IRIs tools pipelined with an appropriate API-framework. This [...]

Cyber Threat Intelligence Storing and Sharing The IRIS project aims to assist European CERTs/CSIRTs minimise the impact of cybersecurity and privacy risks, as well as threats introduced by cyber-physical vulnerabilities in IoT platforms and by adversarial attacks on AI provisions and their learning/decision-making algorithms. To this end, IRIS aims to integrate and demonstrate a platform [...]

Digital Twin Honeypots as a defense measure for the Internet of Things   Digital Twin systems are primarily systems that communicate and share data to generate a holistic knowledge of the systems' operations and optimize decision making. Digital Twins are expected to transform the way industry runs, shifting from tight physical asset management to an [...]

Facing ethics and security issues   What is the ethics for a research project such as IRIS? How many ethics and security challenges can be counted in a research project? How to handle them properly, without impacting the project development time and objectives? Those are the ethics and security dilemmas a research project consortium is [...]

Autonomous Risk-based Response & Self-Recovery   Uptake of IoT and AI driven ICT systems in Europe is crucial for our common future, but it is dependent on our strategic ability to protect these systems from cyber threats and attacks. Due to the innate complexity of hyper-connectivity between different IoT systems and the black-box nature of [...]

Released initial version of IRIS platform and reference architecture The initial version of IRIS platform and reference architecture has been released in M9 of the project (May 2022), achieving in this way milestone MS4 of the project (“Platform architecture and specifications ready”). It sets up the basis for the integration of the different developments that [...]

A DevSecOps approach for releasing a security-hardened IRIS integrated platform Undoubtedly, system integration of a large-scale project has been traditionally complex and challenging, even more so for a cybersecurity project posing strict additional security requirements.  Continuous development, integration and testing tasks of such projects such as IRIS should be driven by the highest security standards [...]