10 2019 DTU HIGH TECH SUMMIT BIG DATA & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Birth of a National Hub on Cybersecurity All Danish universities and several other partners are teaming up to coordinate their activities in the constant fight against cybercrime and malware. By Morten Andersen al hub is still a work in pro gress. The partners are about All eight universities in Den- to staff the new unit and set mark and several other up its working program. partner institutions are to “The establishment of a join forces in a national cy- strong cybersecurity hub bersecurity hub. This is cannot be completed over- made possible through a night,” comments Thomas dedicated cybersecurity ini- Hofman-Bang of the Danish tiative launched last year by Industry Foundation, add- The Danish Industry Foun- ing: dation. “Both the hub and the “Cybersecurity has really foundation will continue to entered board agendas. focus on creating strong col- Most Danish corporations laboration between the 15 realize that this is some- partners and ensuring a thing they need to address. continuous business in- But the difficult part is to volvement in the initiative. find out how. Therefore, the At the Danish Industry foundation has decided to Foundation, we see this as establish a stronger and an initiative of strategic im- more formal collaboration portance. We are commit- across institutions. The ted to following the work of Danish Hub for Cybersecu- the hub closely and see rity. We want the hub to be a where and how it strength- dynamic and ambitious ens Danish businesses.” ecosystem where relevant After an internal kick-off skills, projects, courses, event in June, the High-Tech tools and innovative solu- Thomas Hofman-Bang, CEO at the Danish Industry Foundation: “Cybersecurity has really entered board agendas.” tions are available to the in- Summit 2019 will be the first occasion for a wider au- d u s t r y , ” s a y s T h o m a s Keen to initiate joint instance, all Danish univer- strengthen our engagement An initiative of dience to learn about the Hofman-Bang, CEO at the industry projects sities have representation in and inf luence in European strategic importance ideas and scope of the initia- Danish Industry Founda- The hub will not be set up to Brussels. It seems obvious cybersecurity programs by At the time of writing, the tive. tion, adding: rescue businesses in acute t h a t we m a y b e a ble to joining forces.” establishment of the nation- “A strengthening of the problems, but rather to initi- innovation within cyberse- ate new innovative projects curity will improve Danish with both academic and in- competitiveness, not just for the companies developing the new solutions but very much also for their clients. dustry participation. “Right now, it is not quite clear what a company should do if it wishes to engage in No country can Sec u re a nd t r ust wor t hy cooperation with a public re- fight cybercrime alone digital and physical solu- tions are widely important across business segments.” Especially the so-called search institution on a cyber security topic. One of our tasks will be to coordinate efforts and serve as a driver for N o t - P e t y a b r e a k d o w n new joint industry projects,” which affected Maersk Line in late 2017 served as an eye Christian D. Jensen explains. “A lot of activity within Through participation in a new EU initiative, DTU Compute bridges opener to the Danish industry and authorities, notes cyber security takes place at Danish institutions. Yet, this national cybersecurity efforts to those of other European countries. associate professor Chris- activity is quite fragmented. tian D. Jensen, DTU Com- You have maybe one or two By Morten Andersen and businesses are not put at their streng th relates to a Bridging to the pute. He ha s coord i nated researchers working togeth- risk,” says Alberto Lafuente, niche or otherwise limited Danish universities t he establ ish ment of t he er on minor projects. As a Even massive investments associate professor and head discipline within cyber secu- Initiated in February 2019, new national hub together national initiative the new in firewall-software, encryp- of section at DTU Compute. rity. Only if we are able to the four EU pilot projects with the many parties in- hub will identify the various tion and other forms of ad- He coordinates the depart- unite competences from all will run for 3,5 years. To- volved: activities and competencies. vanced technology would ment’s participation in Cy- EU member states, will Eu- gether they will prepare a “ M a e r s k L i ne w a s not This will hopefully allow us not shield a country com- berSec4Europe, one of four rope be able to compete with European Cybersecurity even targeted by the attack to help these researchers set pletely from cybercrime and pilot projects for the Europe- USA, China, and Russia.” Competence Network and a but was hit indirectly as col- up larger initiatives while malware. Therefore, nation- an Cybersecurity Compe- Nicola Dragoni stresses, common cybersecurity re- l ate ra l d a m a ge . Yet , t he avoiding unnecessary dupli- al measures must be accom- tence Network, funded by t hat we shou ld not on ly search and innovation road- company suffered substan- cation of efforts,” says Chris- panied by participation in the EU Commission. think about cybersecurity map. The total investment is tial losses. This highlighted tian D. Jensen. international efforts. In the as a question of technical 64 million Euro, of which 16 how v u l nerable moder n “Also, we shouldn’t forget case of Denmark, the most We need to become solutions: million are for CyberSe- businesses are to cyberat- that cybersecurity is highly natural partners are the oth- security aware “ We do not have to ex- c4Europe. DTU Compute is tacks.” international by nature. For er EU countries. CyberSec4Europe involves plain our children how an the only Danish participant. “As the threats to cyberse- 43 partners. iPad works - it is part of the “This is a huge responsibil- THE PARTNERS IN THE NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY HUB curity do not respect national borders, we need to work internationally. And we do “Having to coordinate the work of many partners is typical for Europe,” remarks culture. But this is not yet the case for cybersecurity. People will neglect to up- ity,” notes Alberto Lafuente. “We need to both disseminate the work in the project Besides all Danish universities – Copenhagen Business School n o t h a v e u n l i m i t e d Alberto’s colleague, associ- date their passwords, they to other groups in Denmark, (CBS), DTU, and the universities of Aalborg, Aarhus, Copenha- amounts of time. Soon, ev- ate professor Nicola Dragoni. will access their bank ac- a nd a lso do the opposite, gen, Roskilde and Southern Denmark – three GTS institutions – the Alexandra Institute, Force Technology, and the Danish Institute of Fire and Security Technology (DBI) – are partners in the new national cybersecurity hub just as is Danske Erhvervsaka demier and two innovation networks, InfinIT and CenSec. erything will be based on cyber systems. Often these systems will be built in other countries – maybe even outside Europe – and we need to address how we as- “Obviously, this is challenging, but the good news is that if we succeed, we will be able to find very strong solutions. Across Europe we see many examples of excellent re- counts from open Wi-Fi networks, etc. This is something we need to change. It will not happen overnight. It takes time to achieve cultural changes, but we need namely grasp Danish viewpoints which we may put forward in the European d iscussions . H ig h Tec h Summit will be a fine occasion for both tasks.” sure that European citizens search groups, but typically to start now.”
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