Engineering Innovation in
Digital Defense, Aerospace & Homeland Security
Proposing a new approach to Cybersecurity through a research project.
Approach & Solution
Approach
Cyber attacks can not only cause significant monetary damage, but can also damage organizations' reputation and reliability.
Often there is a serious disequilibrium between the efficiency of the attacks and the inadequacy of the defense solutions. In particular, it is difficult to report and measure companies' cybersecurity risk, which is often underestimate by Decision Makers, causing low investments.
The Hermeneut Research project is born precisely for this reason.
Solution
Hermeneut promotes a new approach to the management of cybersecurity, providing organizations with a methodology based on cost-benefit analysis to assess the vulnerability of their tangible and intangible assets.The project takes into account the strategy of the attacker, the level of defense of the target organizations and their exposure to risk, also considering the influence of the human factor. In this way Hermeneut provides organizations with a clear risk position and guidelines for investing Cybersecurity.
The project has received co-funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme - Contract No. 740322
Results
Better estimate of vulnerabilities and costs related to cyber attacks
Better prevention and security for organizations
Decision-making support on cybersecurity investments
Project value
Cost cutting Innovation
Enabling Technologies
Cybersecurity
Project Team
Research & Innovation