Postdoctoral position- Computer Science

Research Project Title: PRAETORIAN. Protection of Critical Infrastructures from advanced combined cyber and physical threats.

PRAETORIAN: Protection of Critical Infrastructures from advanced combined cyber and physical threats.

Strategic goal is to increase the security and resilience of European CIs, facilitating the coordinated protection of interrelated CI against combined physical and cyber threats. To that end, the project will provide a multidimensional (economical, technological, policy, societal) yet installation-specific toolset comprising: (i) a Physical Situation Awareness system, (ii) a Cyber Situation Awareness system; (iii) a Hybrid Situation Awareness system, which will include digital twins of the infrastructure under protection; and (iv) a Coordinated Response system. The PRAETORIAN toolset will support the security managers of Critical Infrastructures (CI) in their decision making to anticipate and withstand potential cyber, physical or combined security threats to their own infrastructures and other interrelated CIs that could have a severe impact on their performance and/or the security of the population in their vicinity. The project will specifically tackle (i.e. prevent, detect, response and, in case of a declared attack, mitigate) human-made cyber and physical attacks or natural disasters affecting CIs. It will also address how an attack or incident in a specific CI can jeopardise the normal operation of other neighbouring/interrelated CIs, and how to make all of them more resilient, by predicting cascading effects and proposing a unified response among CIs and assisting First Responder teams.

PRAETORIAN is a CI-led, user-driven project, which will demonstrate its results in three international pilot clusters – some of them cross border– involving 9 outstanding critical infrastructures: 2 international airports, 2 ports, 3 hospitals and 2 power plants

Training/Roles to develop:

• Attend all the national and international PRAETORIAN meetings and present the corresponding reports and deliverables.
• Coordinate and supervise the periodic and final reports to the European Commission Supervision of the institution financial reports of the European project.
• Contribute and promote the European project publicity and results dissemination.
• Support in all the activities related to the data management and data analysis, monitoring of indicators and risk assessment.
• Support and supervision of the scientific and technical deliverables of the whole consortium of the European project
• Prepare and draft EC technical and financial progress reports in conformity with Commission’s guidelines.
• Dissemination of scientific and technological knowledge generated within the context of the project.
• Access, creation and structuration of the project data base Use case and pilot scenario definition, development and evaluation