Motivated by EU’s strategic push to increase the Union’s cybersecurity posture, several initiatives are underway to address cybersecurity challenges in services critical to the European economy and wider society. In this context, this proposal proposes CY-TRUST (“”CYpriot secToRial secUrity operationS cenTres””) which aims to increase the capacity the Republic of Cyprus to defend its infrastructures & citizens from cyber threats, through the introduction of Sectorial Security Operations Centres (Sectorial SOCs), covering 4 sectors (including Energy, Maritime, Governmental & SMEs), that will be interconnected with the National Competent Authority entrusted with cyber security, the Digital Security Authority (DSA) of Cyprus. This effort will follow and adopt a recently-proposed Cyber Security Operations Centres (CSOCs) Blueprint for cross-border, cross-organisational, and cross-functional cooperation, collaboration, and coordination, combining capacity for shared situational awareness, coordinated incident handling, and joint preparedness. Furthermore, with an emphasis on the adoption of European and international standards, and holistically considering the latest developments in the national and European cybersecurity landscape, the CY-TRUST Sectorial CSOCs will facilitate the establishment of the mandated level of interoperability, cooperation & coordination across defence environments, tools, processes, and people, at the national and European level.
