Abstract
In this chapter, the EU-H2020 project CS-AWARE (running from 2017
to 2020) is presented. CS-AWARE proposes a cybersecurity awareness
solution for local public administrations (LPAs) in line with the currently
developing European legislatory cybersecurity framework. CS-AWARE aims
to increase the automation of cybersecurity awareness approaches, by collecting
cybersecurity relevant information from sources both inside and
outside of monitored LPA systems, performing advanced big data analysis
to set this information in context for detecting and classifying threats and
to detect relevant mitigation or prevention strategies. CS-AWARE aims to
advance the function of a classical decision support system by enabling
supervised system self-healing in cases where clear mitigation or prevention
strategies for a specific threat could be detected. One of the key aspects
of the European cybersecurity strategy is a cooperative and collaborative
approach towards cybersecurity. CS-AWARE is built around this concept
and relies on cybersecurity information being shared by relevant authorities
in order to enhance awareness capabilities. At the same time, CS-AWARE
enables system operators to share incidents with relevant authorities to help
protect the larger community from similar incidents. So far, CS-AWARE has
shown promising results, and work continues with integrating the various
components needed for the CS-AWARE solution. An extensive trial period
towards the end of the project will help to assess the validity of the approach
in day-to-day LPA operations.