MIRANDA addresses cybersecurity issues that come from the growing level of interconnectedness of digital services and infrastructures, boosting new collaboration and sharing models that go beyond the existing fragmentation of cybersecurity operations. 

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has undergone a ground-breaking evolution in computing and networking models in the last decade, with the introduction of virtualization/cloud models, multi-tenancy, and service-oriented architectures. The interconnectedness of physical and digital systems (e.g., in Smart City, Smart Grid, Industry 4.0, Automotive, and other business sectors) facilitates the propagation of cyber-threats, due to loose security controls between the involved providers. As a matter of fact, despite of the technical means to easily create Digital Service Chains, the same level of integration and interoperability is not available for cyber-security processes. It is no surprise that supply-chain attacks targeting the relationship between organizations and their suppliers are among the top 8 cybersecurity threats in 2022 and beyond, and Digital Service Providers are the second sector affected by cyber-threats. 

MIRANDA addresses the existing fragmentation of cyber-security operations by introducing the concept of Cyber-security Digital Twin that provides modeling and prediction capabilities of the evolution of cyber-attacks and the risk that potential threats materialize in the current or a hypothetical context in which the system operates. The MIRANDA framework combines latest advances in digital twinning, attack modeling, federated/transfer learning, cyber-threat intelligence, automated detection and response, and multi-domain federation to boost cooperation and coordination of cyber-security processes among multiple domains, with the main objective of early identification of cyber-attacks along the chain and eradication at their origin.

Website: https://www.mirandaproject.eu/ 

Partner: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Space Hellas, Onesource, Stelar, Logstail, Politecnico di Torino, NASK, Austrian Institute of Technology, Sphynx, Plaixus, Ubitech, Wobcom, Mindicity, DAEM

Project Duration: 09/2024-08/2027

Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme (HORIZON-CL3-2023-CS-01) under grant agreement No. 101168144.