Concept and Approach
EU-GUARDIAN is motivated to explore and lay the foundations for prompting the EU autonomy in the development/capacitation of AI-based resources. EU-GUARDIAN project will settle early grounds for develop Cyber Mosaic Warfare concepts and applications and create EU Cyber Mosaic warfare capabilities.
Mosaic warfare concept seeks to exploit Artificial Intelligence (AI) combined with Automation to implement decision centre operations. The Future Decision-centric warfare means improved efficiency, greater adaptability for commanders, easier incorporation of new technologies and tactics, higher complexity of the adversary, improved implementation of operational strategy and faster operational tempo.
The EU-GUARDIAN proposal mainly arose from the lessons learned from the early findings of two precedent projects: ECYSAP and CYBER4DE, which despite being at early stages have pointed out significant gaps concerning the adoption of Automation and AI on the capabilities they develop, propagated in challenges and opportunities extendible to out of their scope cyber defence needs.
Divide et Impera: Metacognition and Layered Automation for cyber response: The EU-GUARDIAN embraces challenges associated to the inclusion of automaticity in the battle rhythm by relying on the Divide and Conquer (Lat. Divide et Impera) paradigm, which addresses complex problems by gaining and maintaining AI-enabled power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into pieces.
Objectives
Enhance the ability to detect, mitigate and respond to security challenges semi-automatically or automatically, achieving faster and more accurate incident prediction and detection systems.
Categorization of related incidents and data assessment to establish whether multiple problems share a common underlying cause.
Support cyber security and cyber defence related human operators, analysts, and decision-makers at all levels.
Contribute to an enhanced cyber situational awareness, improving contextual knowledge of the enterprises, processes, and decision-making where AI should be utilised.
Increased military infrastructure resilience and improved protection against advanced cyber threats.
Support the creation of fit-for-purpose proof-of-concept prototypes of an automated or semi-automated incident management and cyber defence system.
Reference systems and appropriate tests cases to generate training data and evaluate the efficacy of different solutions will be created, both with and without human operators interacting with the system.
Identify opportunities for long-term improvement, wide cross-border cooperation between legal entities, and foster better exploitation of the industrial potential of innovation, research, and technological development.
The whole process of analysis, response and execution will be explainable, and heavily oriented to contributing to the regulation and standardization of the achieved outcomes.
Achieving excellence, trust, and a boost in research and industrial capacity.
Ensure an appropriate ethical and legal framework based on the Union’s values and in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU.
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