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SOC4Academia Toolbox and DFIR Guide

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Knowledge resource for building SOC capabilities in academia
Outcome Type
Toolkit
Lens
Civilian
Source Organisation
AGH University of Krakow (SOCCER project)
What it is

A toolbox and Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) guide from the SOCCER project, sharing knowledge on establishing, deploying and operating Security Operations Centres (SOCs) in academic institutions. A structured repository helping universities build SOC capabilities. Available in English and Polish.

Why it matters

It helps universities and research organisations, especially across Central-Eastern Europe, build and operate their own SOCs, strengthening the cybersecurity posture and incident-response readiness of the academic sector. Co-funded by the European Union (Grant Agreement No. 101128073) with the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre.

Target Audiences
Research & Academia
JRC Cybersecurity Taxonomy
Incident Handling and Digital Forensics
Education and Training
Licence
All rights reserved
External references
Resource URL
SOC4Academia Toolbox (SOCCER project)
Related project
Developing and deploying SOC capabilities for the

SAMA PARTNERS Business Solutions GmbH

Short name
SAMA PARTNERS
Profile type
Organisation
Country
Germany
Organisation type
SME
Website
https://www.samapartners.com
Contact name
Christopher Beck
Contact phone
+4962110759978
User role in organisation
Administrative Officer
Knowledge Domains
Assessment
Assessment of information security effectiveness and degrees of control
Assurance, Audit, and Certification
Attack modelling, techniques, and countermeasures
Attack techniques
Automating security functionality
Compliance with information security and privacy policies, procedures, and regulations
Computer ethics and security
Coordination and information sharing in the context of cross-border/organizational incidents
Post-quantum cryptography
Cyber ranges, Capture the Flag exercises, simulation platforms, educational/training tools, cybersecurity awareness
Cybersecurity and cyber-safety co-engineering
Cybersecurity concepts, definitions, ontologies, taxonomies, foundational aspects
Cybersecurity regulation analysis and design
Cybersecurity-aware culture
Data Security and Privacy
Data integrity
Data usage control
Design, implementation, and operation of data management systems that include security and privacy functions
Digital Rights Management
Eavesdropping techniques
Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Privacy requirements for data management systems
Risk analysis and attacks with respect to de-anonymization or data re-identification
Digital forensic case studies
Digital forensic processes and workflow models
Digital watermarking
Distributed consensus techniques
Distributed systems security
Distributed systems security analysis and simulation
Economic aspects of the cybersecurity ecosystem
Education and Training
Education methodology
Professional training
Vocational training
Enhancing risk perception
Fault injection testing and analysis
Formal specification of various aspects of security
Formal specification, analysis, and verification of software and hardware
Formal verification of security assurance
Governance aspects of incident management, disaster recovery, business continuity
Human aspects
Human aspects of trust
Human perception of cybersecurity
Human-related risks/threats
Non-intrusive security
Privacy concerns, behaviours, and practices
Psychological models and cognitive processes
Security visualization
Socio-technical security
Transparent security
Usability
User acceptance of security policies and technologies
Identification of the impact of hardware and software changes on the management of Information Security
Identity and trust management
Identity and attribute management models, frameworks, applications, technologies, and tools
Identity management quality assurance
Legal aspects of identity management
Optical and electronic document security
Privacy and identity management
Protocols and frameworks for authentication, authorization, and rights management
Incident Handling and Digital Forensics
Incident analysis, communication, documentation, forecasting, response, and reporting
Policy issues related to digital forensics
Resilience aspects
Theories, techniques and tools for the identification, collection, attribution, acquisition, analysis and preservation of digital evidence
Vulnerability analysis and response
Information flow modelling and its application to confidentiality policies, composition of systems, and covert channel analysis
Intrusion detection and honeypots
Investigations of computer crime (cybercrime) and security violations
Legal and societal issues in information security
Malware analysis including adversarial learning of malware
Managerial aspects concerning information security
Managerial, procedural and technical aspects of network security
Measurement and assessment of security levels
Model-driven security and domain-specific modelling languages
Modelling of cross-sectoral interdependencies and cascading effects
Network and Distributed Systems
Network attack propagation analysis
Network interoperability
Network layer attacks and mitigation techniques
Network security (principles, methods, protocols, algorithms and technologies)
Network steganography
Privacy-friendly communication architectures and services
Protocols and frameworks for secure distributed computing
Requirements for network security
Secure distributed computations
Secure system interconnection
New theoretically-based techniques for the formal analysis and design of cryptographic protocols and their applications
Privacy impact assessment and risk management
Processes and procedures to ensure device end-of-life security and privacy
Quantitative security for assurance
Refinement and verification of security management policy models
Risk management, including modeling, assessment, analysis and mitigation
Runtime security verification and enforcement
Secure programming principles and best practices
Secure software architectures and design
Security and risk analysis of components compositions
Security Management and Governance
Standards for Information Security
Techniques to ensure business continuity/disaster recovery
Threats and vulnerabilities modelling
Security analytics and visualization
Security metrics, key performance indicators, and benchmarks
Validation and comparison frameworks for security metrics
Security requirements engineering with emphasis on identity, privacy, accountability, and trust
Security testing and validation
Semantics and models for security, accountability, privacy, and trust
Software and Hardware Security Engineering
Vulnerability discovery and penetration testing
Trust Management and Accountability
Trust and privacy
Trust and reputation of social and mainstream media
Trust in decision making algorithms
Trust in securing digital as well as physical assets
Trust management architectures, mechanisms and policies
Trusted computing
Sectors
Chemical
Defence
Digital Services and Platforms
Energy
Financial
Government
Health
Manufacturing and supply chain
Safety and Security
Telecomm Infrastructure
Transportation
Technologies
Artificial intelligence
Cloud, Edge and Virtualisation
Industrial IoT and Control Systems
Information systems
Operating systems
Quantum Technologies
UAV
Use Cases
Critical Infrastructure Protection
Dual-use rating
Low
Programmes
Digital Europe ECCC 2026
Profile completeness
100%