Barcelona, 17 February 2021 – The 2 Shift2Rail’s 4SECURail workstreams have reached their mid-term goals for the design of a Laptop Safety Incident Response Staff (CSIRT) for joint EU-Rail cyber safety, and a Formal Strategies Demonstrator for improved Railway Signalling Techniques.
4SECURail, a two-year Shift2Rail initiative geared toward delivering a co-designed course of and instruments for info sharing and cooperation for rail cyber safety at European degree and to help higher interoperability of signalling techniques for railway safety, security and effectivity, has introduced that it has achieved its mid-term goals for the design of a Laptop Safety Incident Response Staff (CSIRT) for joint EU-Rail cyber safety, and a Formal Strategies Demonstrator for improved Railway Signalling Techniques.
Launched in Barcelona in January 2020, the 4SECURail venture is being carried out by a multi-national consortium of seven European specialist companions from Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, and France who’re collaborating within the EU’s Shift2Rail Programme funded by the Horizon 2020 analysis funding programme. The members making up the consortium are Ardanuy Ingeniería S.A., Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, FIT Consulting s.r.l., Hit Rail B.V., SIRTI S.p.A., TREE Expertise S.A., and UIC.
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Additional involvement of a variety of organisations and firms was achieved by the structure of an advisory board (AB), arrange initially of the venture. This Board consists of consultants from quite a lot of corporations and organisations, together with Infrabel, Danmarks Tekniske Universitetet, ProB, Prover and College of Twente for the Formal Strategies workstream and DG Transfer Railsec initiative, UNIFE, and the CSIRT’s skilled corporations Expleo from France and Cervello from Israel for the CSIRT workstream.
The advisory board, together with different essential stakeholders within the European Railway atmosphere, performed an essential function throughout quite a lot of technical workshops that passed off in June 2020. Initially supposed to happen in Brussels, the conferences had been held as on-line workshops because of the prevailing Covid-19 circumstances.
The venture workforce engaged on the event of a proper strategies demonstrator for bettering the railway signalling system has already launched the primary model of the demonstrator and has outlined the use case the place the demonstrator will likely be examined: The handover of a practice between two Radio Block Centres. The workforce is now engaged on the ultimate launch of the demonstrator and performing a cost-benefit evaluation of the utilisation of formal strategies within the railway signalling business.
The members of the consortium engaged on the design of a European Railway CSIRT (Laptop Safety Incident Response Staff) collaborative platform have completed the design of the mannequin and at the moment are constructing the collaborative platform prototype. This platform will likely be helpful in coordinating the Cyber Safety response actions of particular person railway safety groups.
Albert Ferrer-Bonsoms from Ardanuy and 4SECURail’s Challenge Supervisor, mentioned “We’re very proud that we now have been capable of maintain this venture on observe in the course of the difficulties posed by Covid-19 restrictions and specifically the lack of Frank Wilson, a key member of the CSIRT Workstream on behalf of Hit Rail, who handed away on April twelfth, 2020 because of the COVID-19 outbreak. He will likely be perpetually in our ideas. It’s testomony to the sturdy sense of collaboration and cooperation of all companions in the direction of a joint goal which will likely be helpful to the rail business and its safety and security.”
All public venture deliverables which have already been accomplished could be downloaded on the venture web site: www.4SECURail.eu.
Shift2Rail is a European rail initiative that seeks to encourage centered Analysis and Innovation (R&I) geared toward integrating new and superior applied sciences by its Horizon 2020 funding and geared toward finishing the Single European Railway Space (SERA). The 4SECURail venture, began in December 2019 and formally launched in January 2020, will contribute to making sure that interoperability and security for signalling techniques perform correctly, other than offering measures to deploy collaborative Cyber Safety help throughout Europe.
This venture has acquired funding from the Shift2Rail JU beneath the European Union’s Horizon 2020 analysis and innovation programme, beneath Grant Settlement 881775.
About Ardanuy Ingeniería, S.A.
Ardanuy Ingeniería S.A. was based in 1992. The Firm is a Spanish Company with places of work in Spain (headquarters in Madrid and places of work in Barcelona, Valencia, Seville and the Canary Islands) and branches in Lithuania, India, Colombia, Peru and Algeria, creating actions in additional than 60 international locations in all 5 continents. Ardanuy is an engineering consulting agency specialised in research, initiatives, works administration, security engineering (ISA), operation / upkeep research; and technical steerage for railways (high-speed, typical, freights, metros, trams, cable vehicles), together with all techniques and infrastructures: observe, signalling, traction energy techniques, depots, stations, tunnels, and so on.
About Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
The Italian Nationwide Analysis Council (CNR) is the primary public analysis organisation of Italy, finishing up, selling and transferring multidisciplinary analysis by a community of multiple hundred institutes everywhere in the nation. The Formal Strategies & Instruments lab that’s a part of the Institute of Data Science and Applied sciences of the CNR has longstanding expertise within the improvement and software of formal notations, strategies and software program help instruments for the specification, design and verification of railway techniques and different advanced techniques.
http://www.cnr.it, https://www.isti.cnr.it/en/, https://fmt.isti.cnr.it
About FIT Consulting s.r.l.
FIT Consulting srl (FIT) is an Italian impartial SME, based in 1997. Dynamic {and professional}, over time FIT has succeeded in constructing a community of over 300 companions in Europe, Asia and the USA, changing into members of the primary European thematic networks on mobility of individuals and items. Its experience relies on greater than twenty years of expertise in fund-raising and technical and scientific help for the event of modern initiatives and companies.
About Hit Rail B.V.
Hit Rail B.V. is a personal Dutch firm created in 1990 and owned by European railway corporations. Its goal is to offer safe telecommunications and IT companies to the European Railways neighborhood, connecting greater than 50 railway corporations from 23 international locations by its safe IP-based Hermes digital personal community (VPN).
For extra info please go to http://www.hitrail.com/ or ship an e mail to info@hitrail.com.
About SIRTI S.p.A.
SIRTI is a number one Italian know-how firm offering options for engineering and community communications. Established in 1921, SIRTI develops modern options for numerous markets, together with railway transportation techniques, telecommunications, power, and all these which require a community infrastructure. SIRTI operates globally, using round 4,000 staff worldwide.
About TREE Expertise S.A.
TREE Expertise SA (TREE) is a Spanish R&D-performing SME offering info and communication know-how options based mostly on Massive Information and Synthetic Intelligence for various sectors and markets (e.g., healthcare, safety, banking and insurance coverage, tradition, power, area, business, and transport). TREE works inside an open innovation mannequin to offer their prospects with superior ICT options, serving to them to optimise their processes and enhance their enterprise. R&D actions, specifically cooperative initiatives, are key to the corporate enterprise mannequin in assessing the maturity of rising applied sciences, gathering new and differential data, and figuring out strategic companions to create new enterprise alternatives.
About UIC (Worldwide Union of Railways)
UIC is the worldwide organisation for worldwide cooperation amongst railways and the promotion of rail transport at a worldwide degree. Based in 1922, it at the moment gathers 200 members on all 5 continents, amongst them railways, rail operators, infrastructure managers and others. The mission of the affiliation is to advertise rail transport at world degree with the target of optimally assembly present and future challenges of mobility and sustainable improvement.
Press enquiries 4SECURail:
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