What is CyberRoad?
CyberROAD is a research project funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme. The project aimed to identify current and future issues in the fight against cyber-crime and cyber-terrorism in order to draw a strategic roadmap for cyber security research. A detailed snapshot of the technological, social, economic, political, and legal scenario on which cyber crime and cyber terrorism do develop was first provided. Then, cyber-crime and cyber-terrorism was analyzed in order to indentify research gaps and priorities.
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Why CyberRoad? |
What will CyberRoad do? |
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Recent studies on the evolution of the principal cyber threats reveal scenarios characterized by the growth of cyber criminal activities. Even though the level of awareness of cyber threats has increased, and law enforcement acts globally to fight against them, illegal profits have reached unsustainable figures.
The estimated annual cost over global cybercrime is 500 billion dollars (more than 500 million victims per year, 18 victims per second). More than 600000 Facebook accounts are compromised every day. In addition to the economic reasons, cyber attacks often hidden political and social motivations which constitute a serious threat to national security (hacktivism, cyber espionage, cyber warfare). |
The main objective of CyberROAD is “developing the Cybercrime and Cyber-terrorism research roadmap”. This roadmap was built through an in-depth analysis of all the technological, social, legal, ethical, political, and economic aspects on which cybercrime and cyber-terrorism are rooted. The research roadmap was achieved by co-ordinating the efforts of the CyberROAD consortium along three key directions:
Activities along the three directions was realized during the 24 months of activities for CyberROAD. |
The CyberRoad Consortium
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The project relies on a large body of competences, since it has 20 partners, from 11 different countries. The consortium represents all the players and the stakeholders involved in the fight against cyber crime and cyber terrorism: law enforcement, public bodies, universities and research centers, as well as companies and industries. More details in the Partners' page. |
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-SEC-2013) under grant agreement no 607642