Impact
The CUSTODES consortium has developed an Impact Maximisation strategy that is based on four fundamental pillars:
- Mission-oriented approach: by cracking specific challenges towards trust and security in ICT Products, Services, and Processes, facilitating the transition to an EU certified digital world;
- Openness: by strengthening open science through open-access sharing of results/knowledge and crossfertilisation with other EU funding programmes and policies;
- Stakeholders’ engagement: by actively engaging of all targeted stakeholders throughout the project’s development, deployment and pilot processes and
- Sustainability: by investing in research and innovation in order to produce new knowledge and advance existing one, ensuring a sustainable growth for the technological advancements that will be delivered. The table below captures the target groups and how we envision they will uptake the project’s results to expected impacts. Understanding these profiles in the value chain is essential to achieve the desired impact.
Figure 5: Target Groups and Pathways to expected impacts
The CUSTODES project contributes to the HORIZON-CL3-2022-CS-01-04 call’s expected outcomes and impacts in the following ways, indicating to what extent the project will achieve these results for its beneficiaries and society.
- TO1: Availability of applicable tools and procedures for partial and continuous assessment and lean re-certification of ICT products, ICT services and ICT processes;
- TO2: Reduction of time and efforts spent for (re-)certifying ICT products, ICT services and ICT processes;
- TO3: Improved stakeholder collaboration on cybersecurity certification information, including manufacturers and end users from different Member States;
- TO4: Efficient (re-)use of information and evidence relevant to certification and in support of multi-scheme (re-)use;
- TO5: Integration of certification on the whole system modelling, verification, testing and verification process;
- TO6: Increased comparability of assurance statements arising from certification schemes and the standards used therein; avoidance of multi-certification;
- TO7: Advancing test and simulation facilities, including incident and threat analysis;
- TO8: Increased Digital Twin capabilities for continuous assessment and integration of new solutions.
Contribution to wider impacts
-Strengthened EU cybersecurity capacities and European Union sovereignty in digital technologies
-More resilient digital infrastructures, systems and processes
-Increased software, hardware and supply chain security
-Secured disruptive technologies
-Smart and quantifiable security assurance and certification shared across the EU
-Reinforced awareness and a common cyber security management and culture
Socio-economic, technical and scientific impact
Market and Socio-economic impact: CUSTODES will develop, validate and demonstrate a thorough Composite Inspection and Certification (CIC) System that will create solid links between the EU cybersecurity market and stakeholders related to an agile certification tools and processes; it will advance the efficiency of specific tools and technologies facilitating resilience in ICT products, services and processes provided and realize a roadmap towards their integration in the market.
Scientific & technical impact: Fast-emerging technologies can promote advances across a range of scientific disciplines, and the societal and economic benefits that could follow are substantial. At the same time, these technologies could have a disruptive influence on the conduct of science. In this context, dynamic risk assessment models, and threat models for effective cybersecurity open a new horizon of opportunities for expanding research landscape by bridging the gaps between cybersecurity innovations and their applications, generating practical examples and inspirations for both technological experts and academic leaders.
