SOCCER

The SOCCER project is dedicated to fortifying the cybersecurity capabilities and resilience of the EU, with a paramount focus on ensuring a cyber-secure academia sector. Specifically tailored for CEE countries, the initiative aims to support the establishment and advancement of Security Operations Centres (SOCs) within Universities and Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs).

The SOCCER project contributes to long-term policy objectives identified by the European Commission and European Union authorities in regards to EU-wide cybersecurity capacity building. It addresses the specific challenge of increasing number and sophistication of cyber-attacks and cyber-operations targeting the academic sector as well as the security challenge of the CEE region being at the frontline of the hybrid threats resulted from the Russian aggression on Ukraine.

The project envisages the EU-wide SOC’s ecosystem in the making and willing to integrate the academic sector with priorities and tasks which will be undertaken and implemented by ECCC and the Network of National Coordination Centres.

The SOCCER project funded under Grant Agreement No. 101128073 is supported by the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre.