European network of Cybersecurity centres and competence Hub for innovation and Operations

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The European Commission has, under the H2020 Program, brought together specialist expertise to form four pilot projects with the objective of connecting and sharing knowledge across multiple domains to develop a common cybersecurity strategy for Europe. ECHO (the European network of Cybersecurity centres and competence Hub for innovation and Operations) is one of these four projects. The ECHO consortium consists of 30 partners from different fields and sectors including health, transport, manufacturing, ICT, education, research, telecom, energy, space, healthcare, defence & civil protection.

The main objective of ECHO is to strengthen the proactive cyber defence of the European Union, enhancing Europe’s technological sovereignty through effective and efficient multi-sector and multi-domain collaboration. The project will develop a European Cybersecurity ecosystem, to support secure cooperation and development of the European market, as well as to protect the citizens of the European Union against cyber threats and incidents.

Among others, ECHO will deliver the following systems:

• The ECHO Early Warning System (E-EWS) provides a mechanism for partners to share incidents, trends and other relevant cybersecurity data to trusted partners within the network of cybersecurity competence centres;
• The ECHO Federated Cyber Range (E-FCR) provides realistic environments for conducting experimentation, exercises, research and prototype testing, enables the combination of multiple scenarios from different content providers, and a focus point for training and expertise.

Discover ECHO at https://echonetwork.eu/

Publications

• Paloma de la Vallée, Georgi Nikolov, Thibault Debatty and Wim Mees. 2021. Automated Cyber Red Teaming
• Pawel Czaja, Bartlomiej Gdowski, Marcin Niemiec, Wim Mees, Nikolai Stoianov, Konstantinos Votis, Vyacheslav Kharchenko, Vasilis Katos and Matteo Merialdo. 2025. Cybersecurity challenges and opportunities of machine learning-based artificial intelligence. Neural Computing and Applications, 37
• Notis Mengidis, Maya Bozhilova, Cyril Ceresola, Consuelo Colabuono, Michael Cooke, Gregory Depaix, Angel Genchev, Georgi Koykov, Wim Mees, Matteo Merialdo, Antonis Voulgaridis, Theodora Tsikrika, Konstantinos Votis and Stefanos Vrochidis. 2022. Leveraging Cyber Ranges for Prototyping, Certification and Training: The ECHO case. Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2022
• Nikos Oikonomou, Notis Mengidis, Minas Spanopoulos-Karalexidis, Antonis Voulgaridis, Matteo Merialdo, Ivo Raisr, Kaarel Hanson, Paloma de la Vallée, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis and Konstantinos Votis. 2021. ECHO federated cyber range: Towards next-generation scalable cyber ranges. Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2021