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TRANSCEND joins the European Cluster for Securing Critical Infrastructures

The TRANSCEND project is honored to join the European Cluster for Securing Critical Infrastructures (ECSCI).

The TRANSCEND project is honored to join the European Cluster for Securing Critical Infrastructures (ECSCI). The ECSCI cluster, formed by a community of 44 EU-funded projects, aims to create synergies and foster emerging disruptive solutions to security issues via cross-projects collaboration and innovation.

By joining ECSCI cluster, the TRANSCEND project paves the way to create new synergies with other European projects to exchange knowledge and information about the critical infrastructure’s protection and management in crisis. At the same time, TRANSCEND will contribute to provide insights on the application by logistics and CIs operators of the CER and NIS-2 directives, and provide new innovative solutions to allow logistics CIs (e.g.: airport freight cargo terminals) to improve their resilience and readiness to cyber and non-cyber threats.

More information about the ECSCI cluster and its activities: ECSCI | FINSEC Project

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Rationale

Ensuring the resilience of Critical Infrastructures (CIs), particularly in the transport sector, has become increasingly vital. Today, there is a strong emphasis on securing information systems and effectively managing risks that could disrupt these essential services. Moreover, CIs are becoming progressively more interdependent across sectors; for example, energy is essential for telecommunications, which in turn supports logistics and transport operations. This growing interconnectedness increases systemic complexity and makes CIs more vulnerable to sophisticated cyber-physical attacks. As a result, understanding and modelling dependencies both across different sectors and domains, and within operators of the same CI, is not only required by regulations, but also crucial for improving preparedness, risk management, and coordinated incident response.

Objective

 The primary objective of the ecosystem modelling module is to analyse an ecosystem surrounding a CI as a whole and to provide the foundations for simulating potential impacts on the resilience of a supply chain composed of multiple entities (both internal and external to the CI) by propagating risk consequences across dependencies (domino effect).