Publications

The COcyber Community requires a governance and collaboration framework that enables trusted cybersecurity information sharing, joint capability development, and coordinated delivery among organisations that may operate across sectors or jurisdictions. Concretely, this framework, submitted as an Annex of D6.6 COcyber Final Sustainability Plan and as a standalone document in the Zenodo repository, should enable replicability outside the project for all those organisations that would like to take over the role of facilitator for Civilian and Defence joint activities in the cybersecurity domain. [...]

Deliverable D6.4 documents the strategic execution and final outcomes of Task 6.1 within the COcyber project . The primary mission of this task was to mitigate ecosystem fragmentation by building a functional bridge between Europe's civilian and defence cybersecurity initiatives.Following a major governance transition and a task re-baseline in December 2025, the consortium implemented a robust, three-phase methodology. Combining AI-assisted semantic analysis with manual granular enrichment, the team mapped 88 EU-funded projects and evaluated them using a quantitative prioritisation framework m [...]

This deliverable reports on the integrations implemented in the COcyber Platform with other European cybersecurity initiatives, as required by Task 3.3 of the Grant Agreement. Its centrepiece is the Cybersecurity Projects’ Landscape: a live interactive map of 89 EU-funded projects across Horizon Europe and Digital Europe, grouped into nine thematic clusters and enriched with key project data and links. The report also presents three participation channels—DECEO, the Shared Calendar of Events, and Open Data Repositories—which enable partner projects to share outcomes, events, indicators and dat [...]

This deliverable presents the final roadmap and activity report for Task 2.3 of the COcyber project. It provides an overview of the COcyber Community with its member breakdown, a comprehensive timeline of all events organised throughout the project lifecycle and their content, and an impact analysis section assessing the outcomes of these coordination activities aimed at strengthening civilian–defence cybersecurity cooperation in Europe. Disclaimer The COcyber project, funded under Grant Agreement No. 101158606, is supported by the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre and is funded by the [...]

This White Paper presents the COcyber policy recommendations for strengthening civilian–defence cybersecurity coordination in Europe. It translates the project’s policy review, needs assessment, PESTEL analysis, national case studies and stakeholder validation into a sequenced implementation agenda for EU and national policymakers. The recommendations focus on practical interoperability, trusted information sharing, protected incident reporting, joint exercises, skills, funding alignment, innovation uptake, dual-use guidance, hybrid-threat preparedness, post-quantum transition and continuous [...]

This white paper examines cybersecurity awareness as a communication challenge and a key component of cyber resilience. It explores how people understand, interpret, and respond to cyber risks, and why awareness strategies need to reflect real decision-making contexts. The paper focuses on three areas: the human factors that make individuals vulnerable to manipulation, the design of targeted awareness campaigns, and the use of engaging formats such as gamification, storytelling, simulations, and team-based activities. It highlights the limits of generic and fear-based communication, the import [...]

This deliverable presents the COcyber policy recommendations for strengthening civiliandefence cybersecurity coordination in Europe. It addresses the growing interdependence between civilian infrastructures, defence preparedness, public authorities, private operators, research actors and critical digital supply chains in a threat environment where cyber incidents can rapidly create cross-sector, cross-border and security-relevant impacts. Building on the findings of the COcyber Needs Assessment, PESTEL analysis, national case studies from Lithuania, Spain, Hungary and Slovenia, a policy and li [...]

This white paper examines the cybersecurity ecosystem in Slovenia, with a focus on cooperation between civil and defence domains. Based on the Slovenian national case study developed within the COcyber project, it provides a synthesised, policy-oriented perspective. While Slovenia has a solid regulatory and institutional foundation, its effectiveness is limited by fragmented coordination, skills shortages, and gaps in technology transfer, information sharing, and dual-use innovation. The paper concludes that better coordination, investment, and integration of existing capabilities are essentia [...]

Hungary's experience offers lessons for any EU member state navigating the gap between cybersecurity strategy and implementation. The adoption of a new Cybersecurity Strategy (Government Decision 1089/2025) and a National Cybersecurity Action Plan for 2025–2030 marks a significant development in Hungarian cybersecurity governance. For the first time, strategic ambition is paired with a structured, publicly accountable implementation mechanism, addressing the strategy-implementation gap better than in earlier policy cycles. This white paper examines the significance of the National Action Plan, [...]

This 8th edition of the COcyber newsletter highlights new features now available on the COcyber Platform, including Partner Research, the Projects Landscape, and the Repository of Practices. It also brings together the five Cyber Duality podcast episodes, looks ahead to the COcyber Final Conference in Brussels on 25 June 2026, and closes with a farewell message to the COcyber community as the project reaches its final month.