Partners
Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale (ACN)
The National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) is the Italian national cybersecurity authority for the protection of national interests in the field of cybersecurity. The Agency is responsible for safeguarding security and resilience in cyberspace. It is responsible for preventing and mitigating as many cyber attacks as possible, and for promoting the achievement of technological autonomy. Among the Agency's main tasks is the implementation of the National Cybersecurity Strategy, adopted by the President of the Council of Ministers, which contains the goals to be pursued by 2026. ACN is also a member of the DEP-funded ENSOC Project. In line with its mission, ACN supports national private and public entities in the mitigation of cyber incidents, pursues EU and national strategic autonomy in digital, and promotes cybersecurity training and awareness-raising. Moreover, ACN has developed know-how on collaborative cross-European initiatives through its representatives in the NCCs Network and CSIRTs Network, its role as a contact point in the EUCyCLONe Network and its membership of the ENISA Management Board.
ACN is the Lead partner of CHIEF ensuring a sound coordination of all WPs. It will lead WP6 by ensuring effective overall project management, including monitoring and evaluation. Moreover, thanks to its extensive technical expertise, it will lead WP3, supporting the Cyber Hubs inner community with the definition of the Blueprint for AI and HPC integration and standardised data exchange requirements.
Austria Bundesministerium für Inneres (BMI)
The Ministry of the Interior (Bundesministerium für Inneres) is an Austrian federal government agency. Among other activities, it is mainly responsible for public security,including the activities of national competent authority for Network and Information System Security (NIS).
BMI will lead WP1, ensuring an accurate analysis of the Security Operation Centers landscape in the EU. In this respect, BMI is a member of the ENSOC Cross-Border Cyber Hubs Project and currently has a national project dealing with the analysis and concept development for building a National Cyber Hub according to the Cyber Solidarity Act. Moreover, due to its central role in organising and facilitating national cybersecurity events, workshops, and consultations, BMI can facilitate engagement with both the public sector and private industry stakeholders within the Project. Furthermore, BMI possesses the necessary know-how to foster technical frameworks ensuring an efficient and effective flow of information on all levels, and it can help develop governance frameworks that ensure smooth collaboration and between national and Cross-Border Cyber Hubs.
Greece’s National Cybersecurity Authority
The National Cybersecurity Authority (NCSA) is a Greek public legal entity under the supervision of the Ministry of Digital Governance. Its mission is to organise, coordinate, and oversee the strategies and measures that ensure the country’s cybersecurity. As the central coordinating body, the NCSA plays a pivotal role in aligning key cybersecurity stakeholders across the public and private sectors, ensuring a cohesive and resilient cybersecurity ecosystem at the national level.
NCSA will lead the development of the Cyber Hubs capabilities and requirements. It will contribute to the project by leveraging its experience in collaborative national and European projects. Namely, the ATHENA (Establishing Cross-Border SOCs, DIGITAL) project and the Cybersecurity Skills Coalition – European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (CSC- EDIC), aimed at enhancing cooperation and information sharing with other Member States. NCSA will make the most of its role as part of the NCCs Network, CSIRTs Network (Computer Security Incident Response Team), and of the EU-CyCLONe Network as a contact point, in addition to its activities within the ENISA Management Board.
Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity
The Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity (LHC) is a fully owned economic interest group of the State of Luxembourg, which serves as the backbone of cutting-edge cyber resilience, fostering innovation, expertise, collaboration, and capacity building. The organisation is a member of the DEP- funded ENSOC Cross-Border Cyber Hubs Project and comprises two departments: the National Cybersecurity Competence Center and CIRCL (Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg).
CIRCL will be the primary entity involved in the project: it will lead WP2 ensuring an effective setup of a cross-border architecture and cooperation modes for Cyber Hubs and WP4, supporting the Cyber Hubs wider community. In doing so, it will leverage its experience as a member of collaborative initiatives such as the CSIRTs Network and its participation in several European projects, such as the ENSOC Project and the and the Federated European Team for Threat Analysis (FETTA) project. These initiatives enable LHC to offer technical guidance on various MISP setups, promoting enhanced threat intelligence sharing. It will also contribute to the review and alignment of taxonomies, and will supply valuable information, including vulnerability data, to enrich the ecosystem of shared intelligence.
The Lisbon Council
The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social Renewal (LC) is a Brussels-based think tank and policy network established in 2003 in Belgium as a non-profit, non-partisan association. The group is dedicated to making a positive contribution through cutting-edge research and by building and mobilising large coalitions capable of ambitiously analysing key issues, sharing experience and delivering cutting-edge solutions for improved governance and change for the better.
LC will lead WP5, by leveraging its extensive expertise in dissemination and stakeholder engagement, developed through its extensive network of collaboration with more than 100 organisations and through directly managing communication and exploitation in a wide range of Horizon Europe projects. This effort will also result in the realisation of an exploitation and sustainability plan, as well as a thorough assessment to evaluate the overall impact.
