Updates

On 12 and 13 June, COcyber held two complementary events: an in-person session in Vilnius focused on critical infrastructure protection, and an online consultation dedicated to civil-defence cooperation. The events gathered experts, partners, and stakeholders to share insights, assess solutions, and contribute to advancing cross-sector cybersecurity practices.

We spoke with the COcyber Batch #1 Ambassadors to reflect on their journey and gather their insights on Europe’s cybersecurity future. Antonio Grasso stresses the importance of regulatory coherence, practical cooperation, and inclusive capacity-building to bridge civilian and defence efforts, highlighting that cybersecurity must be understood as both a strategic and cultural priority across sectors.

On 15 May 2025, our project coordinator Alessandra Zini (EIT Digital) presented COcyber at the Cluster Synergies Webinar alongside other EU-funded cybersecurity projects. She outlined the project’s mission to foster cross-sector collaboration and strengthen Europe’s digital resilience through trusted infrastructure and community-building.

We spoke with the COcyber Batch #1 Ambassadors to reflect on their journey and gather their insights on Europe’s cybersecurity future. Eduvigis Ortiz points to the urgent need for structured cooperation between civil and defence sectors, trust-building, and inclusive strategies to address fragmentation and talent gap

At the event “Combatting Fraud in the Digital Age”, our Scientific Lead Georges Ataya presented COcyber’s perspective on bridging fraud prevention and cybersecurity resilience. He emphasized the importance of regulatory alignment, sector cooperation, and long-term investment in cybersecurity capabilities.

COcyber took part in GITEX EUROPE to present the project, highlight the AI Cybersecurity Deephack as a tangible outcome, and engage with stakeholders working across civil and defence innovation. The event underlined growing interest in practical dual-use applications, with positive feedback from both institutional actors and startups already active in the defence space.

In this interview, Team GENSHIELD-AI, third-prize winners of the COcyber AI Cybersecurity Deephack, share how they developed PhishNet — a multilingual phishing detection system. They discuss their dual-use design for civilian and defence applications, the importance of explainability in AI, and their plans to further develop GENSHIELD-AI for real-world deployment.

In this interview, Team MORPH, second-prize winners of the COcyber AI Cybersecurity Deephack, share how they developed a federated learning-based phishing detection system built for dual-use in civilian and defence contexts. They discuss their approach to privacy-preserving AI, adversarial robustness, and their plans to bring MORPH to market through investor engagement and strategic business training.

The COcyber project was presented by Scientific Lead Georges Ataya at CYBERSEC EUROPE 2025 during the Graduation Ceremony of the Executive Master in Cybersecurity Management at Solvay Lifelong Learning. The audience included alumni, current participants, and invited guests such as members of the Belgian Parliament and the Belgian Defence.

The Baltic Miltech Summit 2025 gathered Lithuanian defense, law enforcement, and tech actors to discuss wartime readiness, hybrid threats, and innovation in crisis response. The COcyber consortium used the event to explore collaboration opportunities, identifying information-sharing restrictions as a key obstacle.