SAFECARE

SAFEguard of Critical heAlth infrastructuRE

Integrated cyber-physical security for health services

Purpose

The lines between the physical and cyber world are becoming increasingly blurred as the IoT takes off and digital connections become omnipresent. In areas where this is not currently the case, physical intrusion may break down barriers. Threats can no longer be analysed solely as physical or cyber and it is therefore critical to develop an integrated approach in order to fight against such a combination of threats. Health services are among the most critical infrastructure, and most vulnerable.

Objective

Bringing together the most advanced technologies from the physical and cyber security spheres, SAFECARE aims to deliver high-quality, innovative and cost-effective solutions in system security. These solutions focus on mitigating cyber-physical threats and incidents and their interconnections and potential cascading effects.

Our role in the project

ACT as project technical coordinator
LEAD in cyber security solutions taking into account the whole eco-system of a hospital including IT networks, OT infrastructure (medical devices) and Building Management System (BMS)
PROVIDE the interconnection of Orion Malware with the Stormshield Network Security (SNS) firewall, the Suricata NIDS and the Forescout’s sensor, an OT intrusion detection sensor
CARRY OUT the integration of an impact propagation model with Cymerius security hypervisor and visualise the potential effective cascades of an attack
INTEGRATE all the solutions into our CyberRange virtual environment
SIMULATE SAFECARE designed cyber-physical scenarios of threats
ENABLE the investigation of zero-day attacks based on artificial intelligence
ADDRESS OT vulnerabilities in hospitals and combined physical and cyber security incidents to assess the propagation of any impact in a critical infrastructure

Find out more

HORIZON 2020: ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020

SAFECARE: https://www.safecare-project.eu
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 787002. This output reflects the views only of the author(s), and the European Union cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.