DS-04-2016

Economics of Cybersecurity -

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Specific Challenge:

Many cyber security failures in systems and organisations can only be explained and appropriately addressed by examining the problem through not only from the technical point of view but also through a deep societal, institutional and economic analysis.

Moreover, current structures at institutional level (national and international) as well as incentive frameworks (financial or regulatory, positive or negative) don't seem to be able to provide adequate coverage to threats.

Scope

With a multidisciplinary approach combining economic, behavioural, societal and engineering insights, measurement approaches and methodologies and combining methods from microeconomics, econometrics, qualitative social sciences, behavioural sciences, decision making, risk management and experimental economics, proposals are expected to cover one of the following two strands:

  • Cybersecurity cost-benefit framework:
    • Security and privacy cost models including the pricing of digital assets, modelling and methods for estimation of costs of intangible risks (reputation, non-critical service disruption…) and relevant metrics and indicators;
    • The proposals should study and take into consideration relevant market sector specificities, and validate their models with relevant actors from these sectors.
    • Optimal investment in information security, risk management and cyber security insurance;
  • Incentives and business models:
    • Identifying the incentives and striking the right balance between cooperative and regulatory approaches to information sharing regarding incidents and vulnerabilities;
    • Consider behavioural aspects of security and privacy;
    • Investigate the opportunities and risks of information security markets (e.g. bug bounties, vulnerability discovery & disclosure);
    • Develop revenue models for criminal activity and the deployment of cost-effective security measures as necessary disincentive for attacks and cyber-criminal activity.

For both strands proposals should also investigate improvements and/or alternatives to current institutional and governance frameworks (market-driven as well as national and international regulatory) with a view to improving cybersecurity.

Based on their results, proposals should provide a set recommendations addressed to all relevant stakeholders including policy makers, regulators, law enforcement agencies (where applicable) as well as relevant market operators and insurance companies.

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU between EUR 1 and 2 million would allow these areas to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts

Expected Impact:
  • Improved societal understanding of information security failures and how they should be addressed.
  • Improved risk-based information security investment.
  • Increased societal resilience to cyber security risks through more efficient and effective institutional and incentives structures.
  • Progress beyond the state of the art in information security economics models.
Cross-cutting Priorities:

Socio-economic science and humanities

News flashes

2018-01-16

An overview of the evaluation results (flash call info) is now available under the ‘Additional documents’ section on the topic pages.

2017-08-25

A total of 160 proposals have been submitted in response to this call. The number of proposals for each topic is shown below including the indicative budget of the topic:

DS-07-2017-RIA: 63 proposals (indicative budget: 10 M€);DS-07-2016-IA: 15 proposals (indicative budget: 8 M€);DS-08-2017: 82 proposals (indicative budget: 17.6 M€);

The evaluation of the proposals will start by mid-September and will be closed by the end of the year. Applicants will be informed on the outcome of the evaluations in mid-January 2018.

2017-08-11

An overview of the evaluation results (called 'Flash Call Info') of the topic DS-06-2017of H2020-DS-LEIT-2017 call is now available here or under the 'Topic conditions & documents' section on the correspondant topic page.

2017-04-26

The submission of proposals to the H2020-DS-LEIT-2017 call closed on 25 April 2017. 34 RIA proposals were submitted to this call's DS-06-2017 topic.

2017-03-01
The submission session is now available for: DS-07-2017(IA), DS-08-2017(IA), DS-07-2017(RIA)
2017-01-20

An overview of the evaluation results (flash call info) is now available under the tab ‘Call documents’ for DS-02, DS-04 and DS-05.

2016-12-08
The submission session is now available for: DS-06-2017(RIA)
2016-08-30

A total of 80 proposals were submitted in response to this call. The number of proposals for each topic is shown below including the indicative budget of the topic:

  • DS-02-2016: 45 proposals (indicative budget: 22 M€);
  • DS-04-2016: 22 proposals (indicative budget: 4 M€);
  • DS-05-2016: 13 proposals (indicative budget: 3 M€);

The evaluation of the proposals is planned to start by mid-September 2016 and will be closed by the end of December 2016. Applicants will be informed on the outcome of the evaluations before the end of January 2017.

2016-07-29

An overview of the evaluation results (flash call info) for the topic DS-01-2016 that closed on 12 April 2016 is now available here or under the ‘Topic conditions & documents’ section on each topic page.

2016-07-27

A revised version of the Work programme has been adopted for 2016-2017 on July 25 2016. The main changes concern:

  • New provisions on Open Access Data have been added for 2017 calls with an opening date on or after 26/07/2016.
  • Topic title and long description have changed DS-07-2017, DS-08-2017.
  • Budget has changed for DS-08-2017.

2016-04-14

By the deadline of 12 April 2016, 17:00 CEST, 37 Proposals were submitted to topicDS-01-2016:• 28 Research & Innovation Actions (RIA)referring to "Assurance"• 4 are Innovation Actions (IA)referring to "Security Certification" and• 5 are Coordination & Support Actions (CSA),

2016-03-15
The submission session is now available for: DS-05-2016(CSA), DS-04-2016(RIA), DS-02-2016(IA)
2015-10-20
The submission session is now available for: DS-03-2016(RIA)
call topic details
Call status: Closed
Publication date: 2015-10-14 (9 years ago)
Opening date: 2016-03-15 (9 years ago)
Closing date: 2016-08-25 (8 years ago)
Procedure: single-stage

Budget: 4000000
Expected grants: not specified
News flashes

This call topic has been appended 13 times by the EC with news.

  • 2018-01-16
    an overview of the evaluation results (f...
  • 2017-08-25
    a total of 160 proposals have been submi...
  • 2017-08-11
    an overview of the evaluation results (c...
  • 2017-04-26
    the submission of proposals to the h2020...
  • 2017-03-01
    the submission session is now available...
  • 2017-01-20
    an overview of the evaluation results (f...
  • 2016-12-08
    the submission session is now available...
  • 2016-08-30
    a total of 80 proposals were submitted i...
  • 2016-07-29
    an overview of the evaluation results (f...
  • 2016-07-27
    a revised version of the work programme...
  • 2016-04-14
    by the deadline of 12 april 2016, 17:00...
  • 2016-03-15
    the submission session is now available...
  • 2015-10-20
    the submission session is now available...
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