On March 1st,  LSEC - Leaders In Security and its Industrial Partners AXS-Guard (ABLE), CO-DEX.eu and SpotIT in addition to its Research partners VUB AI Lab, KU Leuven COSIC and Distrinet started a two-year CyberSecurity ICON (CS-ICON) project supported by the Flanders region through the Flemish support and innovation agency VLAIO thanks to the Flemish Community and the CyberSecurity innovation policy of the Flemish government in Belgium. 

The research and innovation project aims to progress beyond the State of the Art utilising AI techniques for CyberSecurity and identifying CyberSecurity challenges with AI. 

AXS-Guard (https://www.axsguard.com/) creates and enhances CyberSecurity solutions specifically designed to provide secure site-to-site connections, personalised remote access, strong authentication and is the first line of defence against malware and other cyberattacks. The company will utilise AI-technologies to improve its operations, its products and services. 
SpotIT (https://www.spotit.be) keeps your network in top condition and helps you protect it against the constant threat of cyber attacks. With a strategic plan, practical solutions and a human approach is how they put security & network strategy on the right track. SpotIT will utilize AI-technologies to further improve its detection capabilities, to further improve and support the analysis capabilities and efficiency of the  security operations (SOC) teams.
Co-Dex.eu (https://www.co-dex.eu) focuses on data protection and security compliance, with the Co-Dex.eu application that serves Data Protection Offices (DPO) and Information Security teams in maintaining their day to day operations. With AI-capabilities of natural language processing (NLP) and automated information analysis, Co-Dex.eu aims to support its customers in providing more relevant, faster and insightful intelligence to stay up to date with their compliance objectives. 

Partners KU Leuven COSIC and Distrinet provide additional insights in the cybersecurity challenges related to AI, and how to further optimize the processes. Specific insights on malicious use of AI will be investigated on top of the direct support to the industrial partners. Partner VUB AI-lab additionally supports the project and partners in the understanding and further enhancement of AI-capabilities and technologies. 

Finally, LSEC will further investigate the capabilities of current cloud AI-platforms (AIOps, SaaS-AI, ... ) and their usefullness, impact, cost for CyberSecurity technology companies and CyberSecurity technology users. 

Cooperation among industry, governmental organisations and knowledge institutions is required to stimulate collaboration, facilitate co-investment in key facilities, establish contact with end users, steer innovations towards the user’s needs and enable the valorisation of research. LSEC will continue to support the innovative European CyberSecurity companies direct with funding, advisory and goto-market insights; working closely with its 670+ industrial strategic members and its end-user industry relations of over 15.000 enterprise and government organisations. LSEC will continue challenging and inspiring both toward the future industrial cybersecurity and privacy requirement, throughout all vertical sectors including finance, insurance, transport, media, manufacturing, ict, logistics, food, pharma, petrochemical, automotive, education, health, government, ...  

For more information about CSAI, please follow our specific section on AI for CyberSecurity. A first public awareness activity will be organized together with IBM June 17th at 14h, to investigate the offerings of cloud-AI services. 

To participate, please register into our Zoom webinar environment to get your personal access. 

For more information, please contact csai at lsec.eu; or the LSEC CSAI innovations team at +32 16 79 8585.

On January  21st,  LSEC and  some of its European partners (Pole SCS (FR), Systematic Paris Region (FR), HSD (NL), Cluster SAFE (FR),  L3CE (LT), CenSec (DK) and FundingBox (PL)) 

SecurIT vision is to create a new global competitive security industrial (& service) value chain thus contributing to structure this emerging sector in Europe by providing key and integrated services in all steps of solution maturity, addressing all technological, ethical, legal and societal challenges of the security industries & services as a whole.

SecurIT is a project awarded to LSEC and partners under the European Commission INNOSUP-01-20 program, a Financial Support for Third Parties (FSTP - or cascade funding) program for nearly 4 million EUR to support innovation in security (both physical and cybersecurity, and cyberphysical security) and ensuring a faster go to market on important innovative and breakthrough ideas. 

The project was awarded after a competition under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, part of the work programma Innovation in small and medium-sized enterprise under the call "For a better innovation support to SMEs" (H2020-INNSUP-2018-2020), after a two sExpertisee evaluation process. 

Cooperation among industry, governmental organisations and knowledge institutions is required to stimulate collaboration, facilitate co-investment in key facilities, establish contact with end users, steer innovations towards the user’s needs and enable the valorisation of research. However, the three pillars of research - collaboration, valorisation and innovation - remain a significant challenge, thus leading to non-optimal uptake of results, duplication and missed opportunities to accelerate innovation. The concept of innovation is to provide new technologies to end users and better value for money for public investments in order to generate economies of scale. Therefore, there is an onus on security suppliers to be compliant to many different types of constraints (regulations and legislations).

With this project LSEC aims to strenghten the industrial leadership in CyberSecurity and Data Protection technologies and services in the EU Member States; as it has always been driving innovation and development throughout its membership. LSEC has also been awarded support to the recent VLAIO (Flemish Government) Innovation projects with the industry under the CS-AI ICON-program, and COOCK innovation support program together with other industrial and research partners; totalling industrial innovation in Flanders for nearly 5 million EUR in the next two years. 

LSEC will continue to support the innovative European CyberSecurity companies direct with funding, advisory and goto-market insights; working closely with its 470+ industrial strategic members and its end-user industry relations of over 15.000 enterprise and government organisations. LSEC will continue challenging and inspiring both toward the future industrial cybersecurity and privacy requirement, throughout all vertical sectors including finance, insurance, transport, media, manufacturing, ict, logistics, food, pharma, petrochemical, automotive, education, health, government, ...  

Find out more about SECURIT in the next couple of weeks, stay tuned by signing up to our newsletter or website. Funding programs of up to 120.000 EUR per European SME can be supported.  Get in touch with us about your idea and concepts at SECURIT.INNOSUP at lsec.eu.

November 25th, 26th and 27th. Three days of CyberSecurity convention 2020 - supported by LSEC .

Join us for the Health-CISO-discussion 

• Become part of the User Group and 
• Join in one or more of the inspiration sessions for Technology and Services companies or Enterprise or Government End Users;
• Launch your business ideas and use cases on Open Data initiatieves in Flanders, and receive a premium reward

Find out more about COED in our projects section, or explore the COED website. Get in touch with us about your idea and concepts at coed at lsec.eu.

On December 2nd LSEC and KU Leuven - COSIC launch the COOCK project COED : "Computing on Encrypted Data".

The COOCK program is an initiative by VLAIO, the Flemish governmental organization that supports innovation in Flanders. After a competition in 2020, COED was selected as one of the projects to transfer this unique scientific knowledge about using cryptographic mechanisms such as Full Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and Multi Party Computation (or Secure Multi Party Computation - MPC) for industrial and societal applications. 

The main goal of the COOCK (Collective Research and Development Knowledge Transfer) project is to achieve the launch and development of a number of innovations amongst Flemish companies  which have received inspiration, influences, information and support by the COED-project over the next three years. LSEC is reaching out to its 650+ member companies, and 15000+ end user organisations (both enterprise, industry and government) to help identifying use cases and jointly develop solutions and innovations. 

This state of the art technology is highly relevant in today's fast adoption to cloud computing, data protection (GDPR)-challenges, (public) open data opportunities and industrial data exchange ideas. It can try to answer the challenge on how to be able to do processing on data which have been encrypted in the cloud, in doing analysis over the data contents without revealing the data itself. Consider how we currently process consented personal data, which needs to remain private to the entity that obtained the consent for it, but likes to use an analytics company in the cloud to present the whereabouts of the individuals on a map - again without revealing the identity and personal data of these individuals. 
Another easier example is how to obtain the average of 10 individuals which have encypted their wages, are not able to see the wage of the other persons, but having a system that calculates the average wage of the person. 

The technologies allow for many different use cases and ideas. With COED, we provide some technologies and tools to experiment, we provide some use cases and facilities to assess which technology to use to obtain the most cost-effective results. With COED we support the innovation of our Members and key stakeholders in their challenges on tranforming digital and moving to the cloud. 

• Become part of the User Group and 
• Join in one or more of the inspiration sessions for Technology and Services companies or Enterprise or Government End Users;
• Launch your business ideas and use cases on Open Data initiatieves in Flanders, and receive a premium reward

Find out more about COED in our projects section, or explore the COED website. Get in touch with us about your idea and concepts at coed at lsec.eu.