The Junta de Castilla y León, through the Institute for Business Competitiveness (Instituto para la Competitividad Empresarial – ICE), launches four cybersecurity challenges in collaboration with the INCIBE (Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute) through the Public Procurement for Innovation call. It aims to promote R&D within the entrepreneurial tissue on the side of demand.

Last Friday, 27th June, the presentation of the cybersecurity challenges launched by the INCIBE took place, which will be approached within the framework of the Public Procurement for Innovation called by the ICE.

The Public Procurement for Innovation is an instrument seeking to Foster R&D among companies on the side of demand, that is, launching onto the market an interest in areas that, at the moment, do not have any responses, in order for the companies to provide the solutions by implementing a R&D project.

As for the specific case of the call presented on Friday, it will be the Junta de Castilla y León, through the Institute for Business Competitiveness, which will set out the cybersecurity challenges for the market, having been defined thanks to the collaboration of the INCIBE, which will take part in the programme as a technology partner.

The challenges suggested in this call are four, having the following key topics:

  1. Detection of bots and botnet command and control servers (C&C):Computer networks infected without their owners’ knowledge and, on many occasions, with illegal uses raise a great cybersecurity problem these days. This challenge asks participants to research on and develop a concept test to detect those networks, allowing for a better knowledge of how they work and, as a result, be able to establish correct mitigation measures.
  2. Detection of .onion domains in the TOR network which are not indexed by public sources. The TOR network. TOR (abbreviation of The Onion Project) is a distributed private communications network which enable the exchange of information in an entirely anonymous way. Many transactions taken place in the Deep Web (Internet content not indexed in the traditional browsers) use the TOR communications network, generally for illegal transactions. In order to connect to a domain inside TOR it is essential to know the exact address. It is estimated that there are about 100,000 domains inside this network, among which only around 33% are known. The challenge proposed here is to be able to find a formula to locate and index the rest of the domains as well as the new ones emerging.
  3. Automated detection, categorisation and prediction of cyberattacks.What this challenge proposes is to be able to develop a concept test which allows detecting, categorising and predicting cyberattacks in an automated way. To do this, the INCIBE will provide the selected option with the data collected by its honeypots (infrastructures behaving as a lure simulating to be real systems vulnerable to attacks), so that this concept test can be launched onto the market.
  4. Advanced services for the attribution of cyber incidents. This challenge aims at developing a concept test that enables the identification of who is behind a cyberattack. In this case, the purpose is not so much to define or prevent the cyberattack as to know who launches the attack and the motivation behind it.

All the companies interested in presenting solutions to solve these challenges will have to present the corresponding form, which will be soon available on empresas.jcyl.es or sending an email to the particular address of each of the challenges: reto1.ciber.ice@jcyl.esreto2.ciber.ice@jcyl.esreto3.ciber.ice@jcyl.esreto4.ciber.ice@jcyl.es

The participation in any of these challenges will be available for a period of three months from the date of publication of the information in the BOCYL. You have further detailed information concerning this call and its challenges in the document below:

If you are interested in knowing how to establish in León in order to develop one of these concept tests in a location near the INCIBE, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will help you with your arrival in the city.

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