Updates

We spoke with the COcyber Batch #3 Ambassadors to reflect on their journey and gather their insights on Europe’s cybersecurity future. Maarten Botterman brings decades of experience in internet governance, cyber capacity building, and digital policy, and values the ambassadorship for fostering the trust and cross-sector collaboration needed to strengthen Europe’s cybersecurity ecosystem.

More than 30 participants joined COcyber's session on European Defence Fund opportunities, dual use innovation and consortium building. The discussions highlighted practical pathways for organisations seeking to access European defence funding and strengthen cross sector cooperation.

COcyber’s success story on ENSEMBLE highlights how AI powered investigation tools, specialised training programmes, secure information sharing mechanisms and public awareness activities can support law enforcement authorities, prosecutors and judicial actors in tackling cybercrime more effectively.

This edition highlights new features now available on the COcyber Platform, including Partner Research, the Projects Landscape, and the Repository of Practices. It also looks ahead to the COcyber final conference and brings together five Cyber Duality podcast episodes now available on YouTube.

We spoke with the COcyber Batch #3 Ambassadors to reflect on their journey and gather their insights on Europe’s cybersecurity future. John Soldatos brings expertise in AI, IoT and critical infrastructure security, and values the ambassadorship for strengthening civil–defence dialogue, knowledge sharing and cyber resilience.

Discussions will focus on cross-border collaboration, protecting democratic processes, translating policy into practice, and advancing dual-use cyber innovation.

In this episode of Cyber Duality: A COcyber Podcast, we speak with Saskia van Uffelen about the human side of cybersecurity, the urgent need for digital skills, and the challenges organizations face in an era shaped by AI, rapid technological change, and data governance.

CRACoWi is developing an AI powered digital wizard to simplify Cyber Resilience Act compliance and help businesses build secure digital products across their full lifecycle.

Civil and defence cybersecurity stakeholders exchanged European practices and discussed practical steps to strengthen cooperation, trust and preparedness at the event organised by our Slovenian partner.

ResilMesh is developing advanced tools that improve situational awareness, risk forecasting and cyber resilience across complex and interconnected digital environments.