At the end of April, our partner, the University of Cyprus, hosted a dedicated session on the R2D2 project, focusing on Reliability, Resilience, and Defense Technology for the Grid. The session took place as part of the 3rd ECSCI (European Cluster for Securing Critical Infrastructures) Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience.

This event provided a valuable opportunity to showcase the project’s progress in the area of secure and resilient energy systems, as well as its potential for real-world implementation.

The workshop brought together experts and projects working on integrated cyber and physical security across a range of critical sectors, including energy, transport, water supply and wastewater, healthcare, digital infrastructure, finance, space, and public administration. Each sector’s unique challenges in infrastructure protection were explored through the lens of participating projects from the ECSCI cluster, which shared their findings and addressed the technical, ethical, and societal dimensions of resilience and defense technologies.

Specifically, novel techniques were presented for integrated security modelling, IoT security, AI for securing critical infrastructures, distributed ledger technologies for secure information sharing, and automation for threat detection, prevention, and mitigation. Special attention was also given to how AI technologies can enhance the resilience of critical infrastructure.

The workshop featured keynote speeches, project presentations, roundtable and panel discussions, and thematic sessions. It was designed for a multidisciplinary audience, including researchers, cybersecurity and physical security professionals, industry stakeholders, and policymakers involved in safeguarding critical infrastructures across Europe.