CyberSecurity Deplopyment Preparedness Support, Capacity & Capabilities

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CYSSDE – CyberSecurity Deployment Preparedness Support, Capacity and Capabilities is a project proposal by a consortium of European CyberSecurity experts in collaboration with the leading European innovation support coordinator. It aims to tackle the challenge of the 80% known vulnerabilities found within 64% of the identified Essential Services Operators that will be impacted by NIS2, and the 92% of SMEs that indicate that they are not capable of improving their CyberSecurity resilience by themselves. With CYSSDE, the project will complement efforts by the Member States by: (1) Organising open calls to support the Member States in increasing the CyberSecurity maturity and resilience of their Essential Service Operators and related SMEs (in industry, ICT and healthcare) through Member State supported vulnerability assessments and Pen tests leading to a better understanding of the specific challenges based upon expert advisory but linked to the specific requirements set out by the national competent authorities. 2) Developing Methods, Scenarios and Use Cases that serve as the basis to define the requirements of the Open Calls but will provide a perspective on the current State of the Art, helping the Member States document and promote them in view of the transposition of the NIS2 directive, and to support the new national legislations’ compliance. In summary, CYSSDE aims to achieve, in 48 months, to have financially supported NCCs in different Member States, leading to at least 23 selected and supported Pen Testing organisations that have executed at least 230 Pen Tests and Vulnerability assessments for both Essential Services Operators and SMEs. CYSSDE will have identified and documented assessment capabilities throughout the 27 Member States and will facilitate access and visibility to them, making it easier for the NCCs and Member States to direct demand and reduce capacity gaps.