ADVANCES IN CYBERSECURITY APPLIED TO SMART TRANSPORT: EFFICIENT AND RESILIENT TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Multi-regional Spain - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP002), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Tenerife (NUTS ES709); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 161,656; EU co-financing EUR 137,407.61, as stated by the source. Runs 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS); selected because its summary names quantum technology. Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, WE HAVE BEEN SEEING THE RAPID ADOPTION OF INNOVATIVE ICT TOOLS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, MOTIVATED BY THE FACT THAT THE DATA COLLECTED AND MANAGED IN INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS (ITS) OPENS MANY OPPORTUNITIES, SUCH AS IMPROVEMENT OF MOBILITY AND ROAD SAFETY. FOR EXAMPLE, THERE ARE ALREADY ELECTRONIC TICKETING AND TOLLING SYSTEMS, SENSORS THAT COLLECT DATA ABOUT DRIVING HABITS AND TRAFFIC IN REAL TIME, AND V2X COMMUNICATIONS; AND MOREOVER, FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AUTONOMOUS CAR AND 5G CONNECTIVITY IS EXPECTED. ALL THIS DEPLOYMENT IMPLIES NEW CYBERSECURITY CHALLENGES BECAUSE IT IS NECESSARY TO EFFICIENTLY PROTECT BOTH THE PRIVACY OF USERS AND THE SECURITY OF COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN HETEROGENEOUS DEVICES. ON THE ONE HAND, THE COLLECTED DATA OFTEN CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION, AND THEREFORE IT IS ESSENTIAL TO PROTECT IT ACCORDING TO THE NEW GDPR REGULATION. ON THE OTHER HAND, ITS ARE VERY VISIBLE AND THEIR LACK OF RESILIENCE HAS A GREAT IMPACT ON THE POPULATION. HOWEVER, SO FAR, THOSE CHALLENGES HAVE NOT BEEN SUFFICIENTLY ADDRESSED, BECAUSE CYBERSECURITY IN CURRENT SYSTEMS IS MAINLY BASED ON CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTOCOLS THAT WERE NOT DESIGNED FOR THE STRICT CONSTRAINTS OF THESE ENVIRONMENTS, WHICH IS RESULTING IN AN INCREASING SERIES OF CYBER-ATTACKS AGAINST ITS INFRASTRUCTURES. IN ORDER TO DEAL WITH THESE ISSUES, WE PROPOSE THE ACTIS PROJECT, WHOSE MAIN AIM IS TO PROVIDE EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES TO IMPROVE ITS SECURITY, SO THAT THE INVOLVED PARTIES CAN BENEFIT FROM THE COLLECTED DATA WITHOUT ENDANGERING EITHER THE RESILIENCE OF SYSTEMS OR THE PRIVACY OF USERS. THUS, ACTIS WILL IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY AND SECURITY OF THE MECHANISMS USED IN ITS, BY DESIGNING NEW CRYPTOGRAPHIC SCHEMES THAT ALLOW USERS TO CONTROL THEIR DATA, MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF BOTH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT. THE SCENARIO ENVISAGED FOR THE DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDES THE HETEROGENEOUS COMBINATION OF INNOVATIVE CRYPTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES SUCH [shortened; the full text is on the Kohesio page]

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The operation focuses on cybersecurity advancements in smart transport, co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 161,656, running from January 2019 to December 2021 in Tenerife, Spain. It highlights the adoption of innovative ICT tools in transport systems. Suggested technology pillar: communication. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.