Project description
Scalable multidimensionAl sitUation awaReness sOlution for protectiNg european ports (SAURON)
SAURON project addresses the topic CIP-01-2016-2017: Prevention, detection, response and mitigation of the combination of physical and cyber threats to the critical infrastructure of Europe and put the focus on protection of EU Ports under Transport Infrastructure and means of transportation type of CI.
SAURON proposes to ensure an adequate level of protection and resilience against physical, cyber and a combined threat for the EU ports and limiting, as far as possible, the detrimental effects for the society and citizens of a declared attack.
The vision of SAURON is to provide a multidimensional yet installation-specific Situational Awareness (SA) platform to help port operators anticipate and withstand potential cyber, physical or combined threats to their freight and cargo business and to the safety of their employees, visitors, passengers and citizens in the vicinity. This will be achieved by accomplishing the following operational objectives:
- O1. To analyse the ports current vulnerabilities and risks: SAURON will use the results of previous dedicated projects (e.g. CYSM, MEDUSA, MITIGATE) which analysed the EU ports real physical and cyber vulnerabilities and risks in order to assess and adapt their results to the ports current protection systems
- O2. To produce a multidimensional and scalable SA platform: To develop (to TRL7) and test a multidimensional and scalable SA platform easily deployable for EU ports comprising a Physical Situation Awareness (PSA) application, a Cyber Situation Awareness (CSA) application and a Hybrid Situation Awareness (HSA) application in order to prevent, detect, respond and mitigate any physical, cyber or combined threat.
- O3. To fuse the physical environment, including external events and the cyberspace in order to achieve a hybrid operation theatre capable of detecting potential cascading effects for helping the decision makers to prevent, understand and face any kind of potential threat.
- O4. To develop and integrate innovative population warning techniques for informing and protecting both, the inhabitants in the vicinity of the ports and the emergency teams in charge of intervening in case of attack
- O5. To validate the project results in a cost effective way under real conditions through 2 pilot demonstrations in real EU ports (Valencia Port and Piraeus Port).
- O6. To ensure compliance with legal and ethical principles and requirements, identify lacunae and hurdles and develop concrete recommendations to policy makers and pertinent stakeholders with the aim to ameliorate the current level of protection in the EU ports.
Recent News
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The EC considers SAURON as a successful Project: Ports prepare for cyber-storms, too
26/03/2019 / InCritical infrastructure, like ports, face growing threats - both physical and cybernetic. In response, EU-funded researchers have developed novel 'hybrid' situation-awareness tools, including visualisation techniques for detecting, preventing, and mitigating the impacts of potential attacks.
Publication on SAURON project in SIC Magazine (Magazine on Cybersecurity, Information Security and Privacy)
18/01/2019 / InSAURON: Ports prepared for combined physical-cyber attacks The ports, which are key logistics hubs, are exposed to multiple threats. The security departments strive to control numerous causes of risks for goods, passengers, infrastructures and information systems. The challenge they face is to prevent, act and minimize any threat. In this context comes SAURON, a project funded by the European Union under the H2020 program, coordinated by the Valenciaport Foundation and together with S2 Grupo and the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), which provides ports with a holistic security system advanced combining physical-cybernetic threats through advanced information and visualization systems.
SAURON Project participated in the workshop: Novel approaches in risk and security management for critical infrastructures in Vienna
28/06/2017 / In PressThis workshop brought together several research teams from all across Europe that currently collabotate in other european projects also related with the protection of critical infrastructures such as MITIGATE, SPARKS, or HYRIM.
Sauron EU project to tackle cyber security
28/06/2017 / In PressA new EU project aims to ensure an adequate level of both physical and cyber protection for European ports and to limit, as far as possible, the detrimental effects of combined physical and cyber-attacks.
The Sauron project gets underway in Valencia, to protect European ports from both physical and cyber attacks
28/06/2017 / In PressOn 30th and 31st May, the Port of Valencia hosted the kick-off meeting of the SAURON project (scalable multidimensional situation awareness solution for protecting European ports), coordinated by Fundación Valenciaport and co-financed by the European Commission through the H2020 programme.
SAURON: SCALABLE MULTIDIMENSIONAL SITUATION AWARENESS SOLUTION FOR PROTECTING EUROPEAN PORTS
SAURON Community
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Consortium
