Cyberattacks are increasingly growing in scale, speed, and impact, posing significant risks to Europe’s critical infrastructures. The implications for the healthcare sector are particularly serious, leading in some cases to delays in life-saving treatment. Security Operation Centres are on the front lines of defence but face numerous challenges, and cybersecurity solutions remain fragmented, costly, and often limited to large organisations with extensive in-house expertise. Many small and medium-sized critical operators, such as regional hospitals or local utilities, lack the resources to deploy and maintain advanced monitoring and response.
MosaicSOC is about creating a SOC for the healthcare sector, and it involves the design and development of a “SOC app store”. SOCoF is a perfect environment to deploy and test the healthcare use case. We are part of a strong consortium that includes SIEMENS and SIEMENS Healthcare. MosAIcSOC was led by Ala Yankouskaya, working with Adrian Warman.
The MoSAIcSOC project plans to give hospitals access to a trusted suite of apps to prevent disruption to medical care caused by cyber-attacks. A focus of this research is to resolve these challenges by providing a stable suite of products that can be deployed at the touch of a button. This has the potential to dramatically improve the resilience of healthcare services for the benefit of patients across Europe and around the world.
As well as looking at how technology can improve responses to cyber-attacks, the SCIFER and MoSAIcSOC projects will also explore the psychological aspects of detection and response. Professor Katos is working alongside psychology academic Dr Ala Yankouskaya on the research. Dr Yankouskaya said: “We will be researching how advanced AI-powered attack techniques influence the effectiveness, coordination, and cognitive workload of first responder teams during major incidents. The goal is to uncover socio-technical dependencies that are used to exploit people and organisations and propose methods for enhancing preparedness and decision making. Central to this work is a human-centred approach – ensuring that AI-powered tools are designed around the real cognitive and emotional needs of the people using them.”
Contacts: Vasilis Katos, Ala Yankouskaya
Funders: Horizon
Collaborators: Bournemouth University, European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC), SIEMENS