After 18 months of work, the SPHINX Consortium was invited for the project’s intermediate review with the Commission’s Project Officer and three independent monitors. After a day of multiple presentations, the announced assessment result was highly positive, having been approved all the submitted deliverables and highlighted the rigorous fulfilment of the SPHINX work plan, in terms of objectives, progress and impact.
Responsible for collecting the application cases for the SPHINX project, EDGE presented the progress attained in the past eight months with respect to the identification of situations in which the SPHINX System would have given its users better and more advanced detection, identification and response capabilities in the face of cybersecurity vulnerabilities, risks, threats and attacks. The monitors considered that the presented seventeen application cases illustrated well the use of the SPHINX System, enabling the relation among the applicable reference scenarios, the assets to be protected and the attacks’ impact, and also complimented the deliverable’s structure, content and writing. It was also requested to SPHINX partners to go beyond contractual obligations and to deliver a final version of the SPHINX architecture, once the development of the different components is completed and the system’s deployment phase starts, in support of testing and piloting activities.
For the following eighteen months, EDGE will perform its part in the progress of the SPHINX project, namely in what regards the implementation, integration and testing of the twenty-one cybersecurity tools delivered by the SPHINX Platform, including the SPHINX API for Third Parties developed by EDGE. Within the SPHINX System’s first iteration, each of the SPHINX tools and the overall SPHINX System will be tested and, in a second iteration, the tested SPHINX System will be deployed at the four pilot sites in Greece, Romania and Portugal for a comprehensive analysis of the System’s performance, effectiveness and efficiency concerning the delivery of advanced cybersecurity capabilities for organisations in the Healthcare sector.