VORMSI

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In a globalising society one of the foundations to ensuring cyber defence is the regular exchange of cybersecurity information between organisations and nations. Cyber-attacks cross national / regional borders and have the potential for global impact. Cybersecurity related information exchange and cooperation between nations and organisations helps improve both regional and global cybersecurity situation.
Although, cybersecurity information is already exchanged, it is not yet common practice in the case of national defence agencies. Main obstacles to sharing such information are lack of standards and processes, complex and strong security and confidentiality requirements, level of information that can / should be shared, notification and response times in case of ongoing attacks, etc. How to best contribute to joint cybersecurity awareness whilst ensuring national / regional cyber defence?
Estonia and United States have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in the development of a security threat sharing and correlation system. The project will be performed in collaboration between Cybernetica, United States Air Force Research Laboratory (USAFRL) and respective national entities benefiting from / responsible for carrying out such information exchange. While the system will initially be used by Estonia and the United States, one of the requirements considered in the design is the capability to include additional allies in the information exchange.
The project aims to research, design and implement standards, processes, methods and rules for the exchange and processing of cybersecurity information between nations. Enabling information exchange and processing on various levels (from threats to ongoing attacks) between multiple nations with different relationships of trust and enabling different rules of information exchange dependent on the current cyber situation (peace vs. attacks).

Current projects:

AKIT

AKIT is an English-Estonian data protection and information security lexicon (Andmekaitse ja infoturbe leksikon).

PROVENANCE

Creating techniques for constructing zero-knowledge proofs for government interactions with citizens, companies or other governments.

VORMSI

Research & development of a security threat information sharing and correlation system for transnational use.

ECYSAP

Implementation of high maturity cyber situational awareness platform for military use.

LAGO

This project aims to deliver the foundation for a trusted EU Fighting Crime and Terrorism (FCT) Research Data Ecosystem (RDE) to address the so-called “Data Issue” in the FCT research landscape.

TEADAL

TEADAL will enable the creation of trusted, verifiable, and energy-efficient data flows, both inside a data lake and across federated data lakes, based on a shared approach for defining, enforcing, and tracking data governance requirements with specific emphasis on privacy/confidentiality.

CHESS

CHESS will integrate leading cybersecurity institutions and capitalise on the strengths of both regions to address important Europe-wide challenges.

Distributed Identity, Distributed Trust

In this project, we propose improved principles and techniques for identity management, clarifying the questions about trust and accountability.

FAMOUS

The project aims at maximizing synergies, standardization and interoperability capabilities of armoured vehicles to address highly demanding requirements while introducing innovative and promising new technologies and concepts.

PAI-MACHINE

Synthesis of machine-optimized cryptographic protocols with applications in secure machine learning systems.

STORE

STORE project aims to develop AI-based image recognition systems while also constructing a shared database of annotated defence images that can be used to train such systems.

EUCINF

EUCINF aims to create a comprehensive European library of adaptable software components that can be seamlessly integrated into Cyber and Information Warfare (CIW) systems. These components will possess capabilities in detection, analysis, fusion, and threat targeting, thus bolstering the functions of Cyber and Operational Centers.

ShareSat

The secure cooperation service, ShareSat, will enable owners of space object tracking catalogues to cooperate in a confidential manner, without revealing classified ephemerides even to the organisation providing analysis for collision avoidance or manoeuvre planning.

EU-GUARDIAN

AI-based solution that operates and automates large parts of incident management and cyber defence processes.

Past projects:

CyberSec4Europe

The project will test and demonstrate potential governance structures for the network of competence centres using the best practices examples of participants like CERN.

DATABIO

DataBio demonstrates that enabling data-driven decisionmaking in agriculture, forestry and fishing increases productivity and has a measurable impact to both the economy and the environment.

ELIKO

Development a radio surveillance platform and an adaptive radio network.

NAPLES

NAPLES demonstrates how to seamlessly add security analysis and optimization capabilities on top of Business Process Management tools.

IUT27-1

IUT27-1 is centered on systems’ security with a focus on Secure Multiparty Computation, Structured Risk Assessment of information and related systems, and Internet voting.

EXCITE

EXCITE will advance foundational theories of model verification and data analysis.

OCEAN2020

The support of maritime surveillance and interdiction missions.

PRACTICE

PRACTICE will mitigate insider threats and stop data leakage for computations in the cloud while maintaining economies of scale.

PRIST

Privacy-preserving statistical studies on linked databases.

STACC

The objective is to turn STACC into a leading and economically independent R&D organisation.

SafeCloud

SafeCloud aimed to re-architect cloud infrastructures with a focus on partitioning and entanglement.

SUNFISH

The SUNFISH project will develop and integrate software enabling secure cloud federation as required by European Public Sector bodies.

TREsPASS

The goal of TREsPASS was to create a mart ‘attack navigator’, which will trace potential weak points within an organization or a given infrastructure.

UaESMC

The UaESMC project focused on methods for making secure computation more practical in the real world.

MANTICUS APOLLO

MANTICUS APOLLO focused on creating the theoretical foundation for a transnational and comprehensive situational awareness capability for coordinating national defense.

SYSFLEX

SysFlex will identify issues and solutions associated with integrating large-scale renewable energy and create a plan to assist system operators across Europe.

INTERRFACE

INTERFACE aims to achieve greater coordination between TSOs and DSOs to ensure a cost-effective and secure supply of electricity.

ONENET

Creating a reliable architecture that enables the European electrical system to function as a single system.

MAITT

MAITT will prototype machine learning and AI-powered public domain service delivery in domains that are of importance to the state.

DANCE

Data protection synthesis of test databases using secure computing technology.

New technologies in voting

The project seeks to map the effects emerging technologies have on voting and offer solutions to potential problems.

M-VOTING

Analysing the changes in e-voting risk analysis in a situation where voting from a smart device is possible.

BELIEVE

Analyzing the impact of biometric facial recognition measures on the e-voting system in ensuring freedom of choice and its applicability in the Estonian e-voting system

EIS

The Estonian information security standard aims to develop and promote the level of information security of the Estonian public authorities as well as private businesses.

KYPSIS

Study of applicability of cryptographic algorithms in information systems, their spread and assessment of the strength of already implemented cryptographic algorithms.

LESCA

Creation of a tool to convert a Datalog-like program to a SecreC program (privacy-preserving computation based on Sharemind MPC platform).

WEBEXTENSIONS

Analysis of the Open-eID architecture design offer including the formulation of system security requirements, review and verification of the protocol set in terms of fixed requirements.

SEVILLA

Creation of programmable secure multi-party computation and applications.

CDOC 2.0

Analysis for Estonia's new file encryption standard CDOC2.0 and general architecture design.

eeCloud

Implementation of the Estonian Government Cloud.

SPoF2 - Part 3 eID Infrastructure Trust Model

Analysis of and recommendation for the Estonian eID trust model.

Vessel Traffic and Maritime Surveillance System

The project aims to bring to market a new TDOA technology and develop a maritime traffic surveillance product for the international market.

Eurostat-Cybernetica project ESTAT 2019.0232

The project created a proof-of-concept solution for the secure private processing of longitudinal Mobile Network Operator data in support of official statistics.

CoNurse

The project aims to expand the functionalities of CoNurse through developing a stochastic model for implementing smart and dynamic protocol delivery.

Smart Wallet (eKukkur)

The aim of this project is to make the necessary preparations and create the necessary commercial and technological base for the provision of next-generation eID services in accordance with the updated version of eIDAS.

Minerva

De-risking machine learning technology for cyber security applications in cooperation with European Space Agency.

Data protection aware synthesis

In this project, we test data synthesis using secure computing technology that protects original data from the service provider so that synthesis could even be a cloud service that is unable to leak the source data values. The project will result in a service prototype.